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Under Pressure by Max Brzezinski

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Under Pressure

Author
Max Brzezinski
Narrator
James D. Sasser
Publisher
Highbridge Company
Publish Date
8 July 2025
Run Time
3 hours 35 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Popular music
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In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for subsequent pop anthems. In Under Pressure, Max Brzezinski tells the classic track's story, charting the relationship between pop music, collective politics, and dominant institutions of state, corporations, and civil society. Brzezinski shows that, like all great pop anthems, "Under Pressure" harnesses collective sentiments in order to model new ways of thinking and acting. As we continue to live under the sign of the global oppressive power the song names, analyzes, and attempts to move beyond, we remain, in Bowie and Freddie Mercury's phrase, under pressure.

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Author
Max Brzezinski
Narrator
James D. Sasser
Duration
3 hours 35 minutes
Release Date
8 July 2025
ISBN
9781696619462
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Highbridge Company
Genre
Popular music

Synopsis

In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for subsequent pop anthems. In Under Pressure, Max Brzezinski tells the classic track's story, charting the relationship between pop music, collective politics, and dominant institutions of state, corporations, and civil society. Brzezinski shows that, like all great pop anthems, "Under Pressure" harnesses collective sentiments in order to model new ways of thinking and acting. As we continue to live under the sign of the global oppressive power the song names, analyzes, and attempts to move beyond, we remain, in Bowie and Freddie Mercury's phrase, under pressure.

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