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This chapter makes a plea for more empirically grounded studies of globalization, offering a case study of the rise of the international music industry in the early twentieth century in East Asia. The invention of technology that made possible the mass reproduction of sound recordings in 1900 necessitated the creation of inventory in what Anna Tsing has called supply-chain capitalism, one way that firms create capitalist economic value. This chapter also argues that much of what passes for theorizing in the music fields is over-generalized, that we need to continue to pay attention, whether ethnographically, historically, or some other way, to what is going on in the lives of the people we study, and that considering what those people value is a good way to start. |
