DeForrest Brown, Jr., offers a conclusive survey of a music industrial complex that can’t seem to remember why we even listen to, let alone pay for, music. Breathlessly explaining why any consideration of the music industry today is necessarily a consideration of the current state of colonialism, he delineates the racism and anti-blackness in the very roots of the music industry, and makes evident the myopia that plagues 21st century culture. A much-needed polemic against contemporary colonialism in the guise of »innovation,« »Social Music« makes clear all that is troubling in business-as-usual productivism and consumerism.