Meritocracy

Book Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society

Getting Signed is a book that builds a powerful critique of one of the biggest and most influential music industries worldwide, unveiling how the ideological motive of getting signed brings individuals to sign their own exploitation in the promise of …

Sounds like meritocracy to my ears: Exploring the link between inequality in popular music and personal culture

Economic inequality is on the rise in Western societies and ‘meritocracy’ remains a widespread narrative used to justify it. An emerging literature has documented the impact of meritocratic narratives in media, mostly focusing on newspapers. In this …