Tunes of Globalization

This article examines the evolution of work in the political economy of communication and cultural studies from the perspective of music and globalization. This theme often forces researchers to review certain conceptual routines ; it offers detailed insight into perspectives, methods, critical positions, shifts and trends, and can shed light on more crosscutting background processes. Thus without any expectation of reconciliation, these two critical traditions seem incommensurable and, ultimately, more different and incompatible than ever. But this article also reveals vanishing points, consonances and dissonances, beyond the terms of the debates between the two currents.