Outside the gates of eden: Utopia and work in rock music

Rhodes, C

Outside the gates of eden: Utopia and work in rock music

Rhodes, C

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Group and Organization Management, 2007, 32 (1), pp. 22 - 49
Issue Date:: 2007-02-01

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dc.contributor.author	Rhodes, C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6571-2872	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-02-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Group and Organization Management, 2007, 32 (1), pp. 22 - 49	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1059-6011	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/5210
dc.description.abstract	This article explores how the relationship between work and utopia has been articulated in rock music. Rock is a cultural discourse that provides insight into the tension between representations of utopian imagination with the often hard realities of the experience of work. The article discusses the value of investigating popular culture in the context of the study of work and organizations and then examines how some samples of rock critically engage with the cultural idealization of work as utopia. Three images of work are delineated in rock music - work as a dystopia to be escaped, the troubled relationship between work and love utopias, and the idea of work as a false, yet culturally potent, utopia.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Group and Organization Management	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1059601106294486	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Business & Management	en_US
dc.title	Outside the gates of eden: Utopia and work in rock music	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	150310 Organisation and Management Theory	en_US
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
utslib.for	1701 Psychology	en_US
dc.location.activity	ISI:000243613300003	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
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Abstract:

This article explores how the relationship between work and utopia has been articulated in rock music. Rock is a cultural discourse that provides insight into the tension between representations of utopian imagination with the often hard realities of the experience of work. The article discusses the value of investigating popular culture in the context of the study of work and organizations and then examines how some samples of rock critically engage with the cultural idealization of work as utopia. Three images of work are delineated in rock music - work as a dystopia to be escaped, the troubled relationship between work and love utopias, and the idea of work as a false, yet culturally potent, utopia.

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