Reviews
"Switched On Pop is an essential text for anyone who imagines the song to be a curious machine, burrowing its way into our hearts and minds." -- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on a Tribe Called Quest "As smart and playful as the podcast that preceded it, Switched On Pop finds inventive ways to put sound on paper." -- Linda Holmes, host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of Evvie Drake Starts Over "Switched On Pop is a unicorn of a book: a work of public scholarship that neither ignores the public nor skimps on the scholarship. It is musicology that thinks about feelings and feels about thinkings. A rare feat!" -- Phil Ford, Associate Professor, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and co-host of the Weird Studies podcast "Through rigorous but accessible dissection...the pair don't just make the case for pop's relevance-they also illuminate the discrete layers that make it so fun." -- The Atlantic, "Switched On Pop is an essential text for anyone who imagines the song to be a curious machine, burrowing its way into our hearts and minds." -- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on a Tribe Called Quest "As smart and playful as the podcast that preceded it, Switched On Pop finds inventive ways to put sound on paper." -- Linda Holmes, host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of Evvie Drake Starts Over "Switched On Pop is a unicorn of a book: a work of public scholarship that neither ignores the public nor skimps on the scholarship. It is musicology that thinks about feelings and feels about thinkings. A rare feat!" -- Phil Ford, Associate Professor, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and co-host of the Weird Studies podcast, "Switched on Pop:How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters is an important text in the growing cosmos of pop-culture-oriented criticism." -- Max McKenna, Pop Matters"Switched On Pop is an essential text for anyone who imagines the song to be a curious machine, burrowing its way into our hearts and minds." -- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on a Tribe Called Quest"As smart and playful as the podcast that preceded it, Switched On Pop finds inventive ways to put sound on paper." -- Linda Holmes, host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of Evvie Drake Starts Over"Switched On Pop is a unicorn of a book: a work of public scholarship that neither ignores the public nor skimps on the scholarship. It is musicology that thinks about feelings and feels about thinkings. A rare feat!" -- Phil Ford, Associate Professor, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and co-host of the Weird Studies podcast"Through rigorous but accessible dissection...the pair don't just make the case for pop's relevance-they also illuminate the discrete layers that make it so fun." -- The Atlantic, "Switched on Pop:How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters is an important text in the growing cosmos of pop-culture-oriented criticism." -- Max McKenna, Pop Matters "Switched On Pop is an essential text for anyone who imagines the song to be a curious machine, burrowing its way into our hearts and minds." -- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on a Tribe Called Quest "As smart and playful as the podcast that preceded it, Switched On Pop finds inventive ways to put sound on paper." -- Linda Holmes, host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of Evvie Drake Starts Over "Switched On Pop is a unicorn of a book: a work of public scholarship that neither ignores the public nor skimps on the scholarship. It is musicology that thinks about feelings and feels about thinkings. A rare feat!" -- Phil Ford, Associate Professor, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and co-host of the Weird Studies podcast "Through rigorous but accessible dissection...the pair don't just make the case for pop's relevance-they also illuminate the discrete layers that make it so fun." -- The Atlantic
