Episode #6
Title: Musician in the Museum: Display and Power in Neoliberal Popular Culture
Guest: Assoc. Prof. Charles Fairchild (University of Sydney)
Summary:
In this discussion, Assoc. Prof. Charles Fairchild takes us behind the glittering façade of popular music museums, uncovering the very real social costs of these institutions and the value systems they sustain. We traverse the historical link between the creation of financial mechanisms that define neoliberalism and the contemporaneous shift in notions of ‘value’ in popular music, exploring this argument in the context of Fairchild’s recent book, Musician in the Museum: Display and Power in Neoliberal Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2021). We discuss the sacralisation of popular music and its objects, as well as the logic of futurity that enables the extraction of wealth from musical value.
What to know more? See:
· Charles Fairchild, Musician in the Museum: Display and Power in Neoliberal Popular Culture (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2021)
· Charles Fairchild, ‘Caught Between the Spectacular and the Vernacular: The Illusory Demos of the Popular Music Museum’ Music & Politics 12.2 (2018): 1-30.
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