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Lecture
Take This Hammer. Talk by Paul Rekret on popular music
LOCATION
Auditorium
LANGUAGE
English
ADMISSION
Free thanks to the cooperation with Audi Polska
Fragment of the cover of "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press 2024)
In his book "Take This Hammer" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024) cultural and media theorist Paul Rekret examines popular music as an aesthetic tradition emerging from folk cultures, distinct from high or “fine” art. Unlike art forms that often occupy spaces set apart from everyday life, popular music inhabits the rhythms of quotidian experience and offers its own traditions of consumption, performance, and pleasure.
This talk will focus on how these distinctive qualities make popular music significant: it moves through everyday life, reflects the social and economic conditions of its time, and hints at emancipatory possibilities, even within the constraints of capitalist labour. From the rise of trap rap and trends in dance music to online streaming, gentrification, and the extension of the working day, the intersections of work and song illuminate both contemporary musical culture and the unique aesthetic power of popular music as a site of creative and social possibility.