{"id":1581,"date":"2025-06-24T04:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T04:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:04:02","slug":"take-this-refusal-and-dance-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"Take This Refusal and Dance To It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 31 Take This Refusal and Dance To It<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Take This Refusal and Dance To It\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8rpA0e_cow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This episode is a conversation with Paul Rekret, centered around his book <i>Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis<\/i> (2024). In this discussion we explore the book\u2019s key themes through both discussion and curated music selections that speak to the intersections of labor, leisure, and sound.<\/p>\n<p><i>Take This Hammer<\/i> examines how shifts in work and the economy \u2013 from the fragmentation of the working day to the rise of precarious labor \u2013 have shaped and been reflected in the forms and experiences of popular music. Rekret traces how the separation of work and leisure, once central to industrial society, has become increasingly blurred in the age of streaming, automation, and remote labor, and considers how music both registers these changes and imagines alternatives. Together, we\u2019ll listen to tracks connected to themes from the book, and discuss how musical forms \u2013 across genres like trap rap, dance music, and field recordings \u2013 respond to crises of work, economic instability, gentrification, and ecological breakdown. This session is an invitation to think with music: not just as entertainment, but as a way of sensing and sounding out life under capitalism and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>This episode is accompanied by an installment of the Saint Monday Mixtapes, which can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/dance-dance-refusal--66444103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Paul Rekret is the author of three books: <i>Down With Childhood: Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence<\/i> (2017); <i>Derrida and Foucault: Philosophy, Politics, Polemics <\/i>(2018); <i>Monopolated Light and Power<\/i> (with Edward George, Louis Moreno, Ashwani Sharma (2024)), and editor of George Caffentzis&#8217;s <i>Clipped Coins, Abused Words &amp; Civil Government<\/i> (2021). He has published on political and cultural theory in journals such as <i>Theory, Culture &amp; Society<\/i>, <i>Constellations<\/i>, <i>South Atlantic Quarterly<\/i> and his writing has appeared in<i> Frieze<\/i>, <i>The Wire<\/i>, <i>Art Monthly<\/i>, <i>The New Inquiry<\/i>, and elsewhere. He is a member of Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective and works on sound and ecological crisis as part of Amplification\/Annihilation. He is a Lecturer in the School of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/goldsmiths-press\/publications\/take-this-hammer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more on the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Intro music: Guitar Welch, Hogman Maxey, Andy Mosely, and Huddie Ledbetter &#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Take This Hammer<\/p>\n<p>The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with Firefly Frequencies: https:\/\/fireflyfrequencies.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 31 Take This Refusal and Dance To It This episode is a conversation with Paul Rekret, centered around his book Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis (2024). 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