One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song - Paperback

by Asif Siddiqi (Editor)

One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Culture, and the Art of the Pop Song brings together sixteen writers to weigh in on sixteen iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks, these essays zig zag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music.

Author Biography

Asif Siddiqi is Professor of History at Fordham University in New York and specializes in the history of technology, Soviet history, and global histories of science. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, MIT, Caltech, and the Smithsonian Institution. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016 and was a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Davis Center for Historical Studies in 2021-22.