Season 4, Episode 3

In episode three of our fourth season, we feature an action news roundup produced by group members Daniella and Dinayuri followed by an interview with scholar and activist Matthew Dineen.

Based in Philadelphia as a published writer and political organizer for the past 15 years, Matt has served on the board of directors of a community radio station in Western Massachusetts and coordinated events programming at a local radical bookstore. In addition to various community centers and bookstores, he has presented at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, DC; the Goddard Graduate Institute in Plainfield, VT; and Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY.  

His latest project, called Music & Work, seeks to explore the role that music plays in our working lives. This project examines the realities of wage labor through the lens of music, with the hope that it has the potential to heighten our understanding of capitalist society – and hopefully illuminate possibilities beyond our current economic system. And unlike existing academic and corporate research on music in the workplace, this exploration is from the bottom up; from the eyes and ears of actual workers. Find more information on the project at  http://themusicandworkproject.blogspot.com/.