@ Jack.

Hello

1. I think you are right about Adorno, though the little I know about his use of the term suggests that he uses it in a much more complicated way than Harker does in Fakesong.

2. One For the Money is indeed interesting. It shed some light on John Hammond (of Carnegie Hall Concerts fame), for example. Some later chapters particularly caught my attention.

3 You asked about other books in the series: I have one by Richard Middleton who wrote the introduction to Harker. It's about popular music and was an OU textbook. It is a very theory thick book with some detailed musicology in it. For me it is a 'dipper-in' when you have the mental energy for it. He too mentions Adorno and mediation, but sort of takes it as read that you are familiar with Adorno. But I think maybe Middleton wants to take from Adorno a view that jazz and popular music as part of the culture industry make capitalism more acceptable because pleasurable. And that capitalism is unavoidable and all consuming. Middleton seems to take much of what is labelled 'folk' as part of the culture industry. But in my experience pointing out how revivalist folk people do (and probably have to) in fact engage with aspects of the culture industry (as, for example, in making and selling CDs) makes one few friends on Mudcat.