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Product details
- ISBN 9781478031192
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 178 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 11 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made “Under Pressure.” Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for subsequent pop anthems. In Under Pressure, Max Brzezinski tells the classic track’s story, charting the relationship between pop music, collective politics, and dominant institutions of state, corporations, and civil society. Brzezinski shows that, like all great pop anthems, “Under Pressure” harnesses collective sentiments in order to model new ways of thinking and acting. As we continue to live under the sign of the global oppressive power the song names, analyzes, and attempts to move beyond, we remain, in Bowie and Freddie Mercury’s phrase, under pressure.
Max Brzezinski is the author of Vinyl Age: A Guide to Record Collecting Now.
