Cultural materialism

How relevant do you think cultural materialism is at the moment? Do you think there have been really important innovations on Sinfield & Dollimore's work since their work in the 80s? I hope I can clarify this and other questions that may come up with you.
 
Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore.

They moulded cultural materialism out of Raymond Williams' work, putting an extra emphasis on dissident readings of Renaissance texts, and on how canonical texts are appropriated nowadays as a tool to validate concepts such as the English tradition or post-colonial nostalgia within hegemonic powers.
I am wondering whether you can apply this approach to more recent periods of time. I mean, can we study the relationship between popular music in the 70s and the current political scenario?
 

henrymiller

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robin carmody kind of does this. but it would involve proper analysis of the entertainment industry (including, obviously, independent labels and the gig circuit) as an industry, which no-one seems very interested in.
 
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