Cultural Study of Popular Music

The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of essential and introductory readings..

Ubiquitous Musics offers a multidisciplinary approach to the pervasive presence of music in everyday life. The essays address a variety of situations in which music is present alongside other activities and does not demand focused attention from (sometimes involuntary) listeners. The contributors pr..

Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-Century music in both East Asian and Western musical traditions...

Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-Century music in both East Asian and Western musical traditions...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...