Popular Music Studies

Description

This title introduces students to significant debates in the field of popular music, offering fresh perspectives and suggesting new directions. The title covers textual analysis, place and space, production, consumption and everyday life. It outlines the history and development of popular music studies and introduces a contribution to understanding musical cultures. It also offers an international perspective on popular music, featuring writers based in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The text features prominent writers in the field, showcasing a generation of new voices. An interdisciplinary text, it features contributions from media and cultural studies, sociology, music analysis, ethnomusciology and performance studies. "Popular Music Studies" also provides clear and concise editorial material, explaining how the chapters fit into the main debates in popular music studies.

David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media and Music Industries and Director of The Media Industries Research Centre at the University of Leeds, UK. Keith Negus is Professor of Musicology at Goldmsiths, University of London, UK.

'A stimulating, kaleidoscopic work of unprecedented geographical and methodological range. The editors' introduction is the finest concise overview of popular music studies I've seen.' * Robert Walser, Professor and Chair of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles * 'An up-to-the-minute field report on the current state of popular music studies, this excellent collection has the merit of not just recommending interdisciplinary but practising it, not just criticising the undue pop/rock emphasis of an earlier stage but offering a model for an overdue increase in pluralism.' * Richard Middleton, Professor, Department of Music, University of Newcastle, UK *