A review by atsundarsingh
Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution by Michael Denning

4.0

Denning writes a brilliant book on the politics of recording sound in the 1920s. It's not simply a history of popular music around the world, or the types of music that were politicized during struggles for independence from colonial rulership. Instead, this is a book about the ways in which sound itself is political; its classification, its marketing, its performance are all aspects of the ways in which people came to think of common publics and nations, as well as their own place in a newly ordered global system just before the Depression.