March 22 2009: Lucy Kellaway writes in the Financial Times, "Last week the Guardian newspaper published a list of the 1,000 best pop songs ever written. There were songs about love, sex, heartbreak, protest, life and death. Yet on the subject of work there was almost nothing: Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” got a mention, but that was about it."
If folk music was primarily work songs, modern pop music is anything but about work. How so?
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