The story of country music is not love and happiness but love and work.

Squarepop—public squares of refusal—is the broken madness of the world stood on its head.

Are we all Westeros now?

The teenpop of the teens has proved discomfiting, like the dead brought back to life.

Thinking about debt has become pop, and David Graeber’s Debt is the genre’s “Stairway to Heaven.”

Stories of shipwreck and drift are Hollywood’s new allegories of national ruin.

When it comes to protest, are pop songs smarter than us, knowing what they can and cannot do?

The happy ending to Hollywood’s summer: not guy gets girl but guy gets job.

An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.