Opening Pandora's App: Reflections on Jeffrey T. Nealon's "I'm Not Like Everybody E
“Music is and has been a powerful apparatus of capture for values of all kinds, but it’s also a powerful tool in subverting the present and/or carving out a livable future” (72). As I read Jeffrey T Nealon’s I’m Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music, I rotate through a number of Pandora stations. There’s my classic R&B station based on bands like Sam & Dave and the Temptations with a distinct 60s-70s Motown sound. Another has been lov