Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What role does utopia play in the pop music and art of Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, and Fatima Al Qadiri? moreIn Double Lives in Art and Pop Music, writer and musician Jörg Heiser argues that context switching between art and pop music is an attempt to solve the contradictions faced in one field of cultural production by moving to another. Exploring the intertwined histories of pop music and art from the early 1960s to the present, Heiser shows that those leading double lives are often best equipped to detect such contradictions while pointing toward radical alternatives.