Review of 'I’m Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music' by Jeffrey Nealon (University of Nebraska Press) by David Arditi

“…The title of the book comes from a performance by Ray Davies (former singer for the Kinks) at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2006. In a YouTube video of the performance, Nealon notes that when “the song’s titling chorus returns, the hipster ‘Keep Austin Weird’ audience is shown, all in unison, chanting 'I’m Not Like Everybody Else…”
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