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b'Folk, country, punk, rap \\u2013 these seemingly disparate genres all have deep roots in radical politics of the working class. They each emerged out of particular material conditions and, in turn, sought to create music about those conditions. And they have all been subjected to, in their own way, processes of depoliticization that have attempted to defang their social messages. To help us recover these lost histories \\u2013 and draw parallels to the ways technology has also undergone processes of being made ahistorical and apolitical \\u2013 we are once again joined by Alexander Billet, an editor at Locust Review and contributor to Jacobin, whose work provides great materialist analysis of music and culture. \\n\\nCheck out Alex\\u2019s work http://alexanderbillet.com/ and follow him on twitter https://twitter.com/UbuPamplemousse\\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).'