Wholesale Muse-Sick: A Music Manifesto In Fifty-Nine Notes

Paperback, 128 Pages: Muse-Sick, the seventh book by Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan, is a sharp, urgent guide to how commercialization has corrupted the arts—and how we can reclaim them. In 59 concise points, Brennan dismantles the myth of cultural diversity in mainstream media, revealing how corporate control has stifled creativity and erased local voices. Expanding on Silenced by Sound and How Music Dies (or Lives), he argues that pop music is a vital, overlooked space for resistance. With examples from field recordings in places like Comoros, Pakistan, Rwanda, and Kosovo—paired with striking photographs by Marilena Umuhoza Delli—Muse-Sick is a rallying cry for active, intentional listening as a form of cultural and political change.