Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades.

So claims Down with Childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's preoccupation with rebirth and inner-children, the fascination with juvenilia amidst an ebbing UK rave scene and dozens of nursery rhyme hip-hop choruses spawned by a hit Jay-Z tune.

As it examines the often complex sets of meanings to which the occasional presence of children in pop songs attests, the book pauses at Musical Youth's...

Derrida and Foucault offers a major contribution to the interpretation of these two highly influentialthinkers. By tracing the moments where Derrida and Foucault's arguments converge but also where theydeviate, this book fundamentally recasts our understanding not only of these two philosophers, but of the political more broadly.