ABSTRACT
The music of British singer-songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg, demonstrate how music creates and sustains multi-scalar spaces of resistance. Relating the globalized corporate and conspiratorial nature of the business of music to Jameson's description of film as a "great corporation". Bragg accomplishes through the release of recorded product, both auditory and visual, in the form of CDs and DVDs the distribution of which is controlled by Bragg himself. Bragg's productions, both as recorded music and as performance, can provide insight into the use of space and environment in relation to economic restructuring and the uneven distribution of capital. The geographical analysis of music provides insight into the complex linkages between place, cultural identity, and globalization especially its manifestation within specific spaces of local activism and resistance. The Marxist aspects of Bragg's output are more clearly understood and comprehended as sounds capes of resistance.
