There's a reason today's ubiquitous pop hits are so hard to ignore-they're designed that way. The Song Machine goes behind the scenes to offer an insider's look at the global hit factories manufacturing the songs that have everyone...

John Seabrook has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1993. The author of several books including Nobrow, he has taught narrative non-fiction writing at Princeton University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. von Seabrook, John

One night in the early 1990s, a young Swedish music producer put a demo tape into the cassette deck of his Nissan Micra to listen to on his drive home. Before he got there, Denniz PoP knew he wasn't interested in producing the band, a...

"Song Machine: How to Make a Hit" ist ein faszinierendes Buch von John Seabrook, in dem er die Welt der modernen Popmusik und ihre Produktion erforscht. Er taucht tief ein in die Industrie, um zu enthüllen, wie Hits wirklich gemacht...

„Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing + The Marketing of Culture“ von John Seabrook untersucht die Verschmelzung von Kultur und Kommerz in der modernen Gesellschaft. Seabrook argumentiert, dass traditionelle Grenzen zwischen...