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Article: Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Age, 2nd Ed.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2007
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Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Age, 2nd Ed. By David Walley Routledge (New York, N.Y.), 2006, ISBN 0415978572, 227 pages, pbk., $19.95
Karl Marx famously observed that in advanced capitalist societies goods became fetishes whose exchange value exceeds the value of their use. Later, Theodor Adorno argued that even music had become a fetish which conferred status more from how much was spent on it than the enjoyment derived from it. David Walley's Teenage Nervous Breakdown falls into this analytical camp, though it's hipper than Marx and more humorous than Adorno. Originally released in 1997, this new edition appeared on the eve of ...