ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with autobiographical anecdotes about teenage encounters with pop songs that provide ways into deeper discussions of the ways in which a history of technologies informs a modern subjectivity. The chapter goes on to discuss the ways in which mechanised and technologised popular music, while often accused of crass commodification of real emotional values, is nevertheless a necessary space and site of valuable resistance against a potentially totalitarian consumerism that would like to commodify and profit-ise as much of our sensual and emotional experience as possible.
