This book assesses sociological and cultural attempts to theorize the worlds of popular music production. It offers and develops a new theoretical matrix that can illuminate these trends in a more complex and instructive way.
This book examines the role of popular music in city, regional and national cultural policy. Examining music policy in Canada, Britain, the US and Aus..
This book investigates fan identities and practices in different contexts and in relation to different bands and artists. Through a series of empirica..
Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction presents new insights into the study of musical rhythm through investigations of the micro-rhythmic ..
French, British and American research into popular music has coexisted - with considerable cross-fertilization - for many years, but the barriers of l..
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which the..
Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of Einstürzende Neubauten's important place in popular/experimental music history. She illustrates ..
Drawing on methodologies and approaches from media and cultural studies, sociology, social history and the study of popular music, this book outlines ..
To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three vo..
This book explores how grunge has been remembered by the fans who grew up with it, and asks how memory is both formed by and forms popular culture. It..
Seeking to extend discussions of 9/11 music beyond the acts typically associated with the September 11th attacks”U2, Toby Keith, The Dixie Chicks, Bru..
For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in pub..
Invisible Now describes Bob Dylan's transformative inspiration as artist and cultural figure in the 1960s. John Hughes combines close discussions of ..