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musical suburbanism, pt. 1: Kidz Bop and the commodification of kids’ listening
Last summer I took a family roadtrip and was driven slightly insane by the heavy rotation of Kidz Bop CDs on the car stereo. In a rare moment of solitude carved out of a frenzied week, I sent out these missives via Twitter: 1. if one promise of musical urbanism is Simmel’s vision of...