{"product_id":"muse-sick-9781629639093","title":"Muse Sick","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrammy-winning music producer, Ian Brennan’s seventh book, \u003cem\u003eMuse-Sick: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ea music manifesto in fifty-nine notes\u003c\/em\u003e, acts as a primer on how mass production and commercialization have corrupted the arts. Broken down into a series of core points and actions plans, \u003cem\u003eMuse-Sick\u003c\/em\u003e is a concise and affordable pocket primer follow-up to Brennan’s two previous music missives, \u003cem\u003eHow Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e in the arts and \u003cem\u003eSilenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePopular culture has woven itself into the social fabric of our lives, penetrating people’s homes and haunting their psyche through images and earworm hooks. Justice, at most levels, is something that the average citizen might have little influence upon leaving us feeling helpless and complacent. But pop music is a neglected arena where some change can concretely occur—by exercising active and thoughtful choices to reject the low-hanging, omnipresent commercialized and pre-packaged fruit, we begin to re-balance the world, one engaged listener at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn fifty-nine concise and clear points, Brennan reveals how corporate media has constricted local culture and individual creativity, leading to a lack of diversity within “diversity.” \u003cem\u003eMuse-Sick’s \u003c\/em\u003enarrative portions are driven and made corporeal via the author’s ongoing field-recording chronicles with widely disparate groups, such as the Sheltered Workshop Singers. Marilena Umuhoza Delli’s striking photographs accompany and bring to life each tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs John Waters says: \u003cem\u003e“I didn’t think it was possible to write a shocking book about music anymore. But Brennan has\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian Brennan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286849925371,"sku":"9781629639093","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781629639093.jpg?v=1772485566","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/muse-sick-9781629639093","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}