As both popular media and media of the popular, words and music occupy endless streams
of media combinations that forge both ordinary and extraordinary intermedial relationships …

This chapter presents theoretical deliberations and two case studies that demonstrate how
conceptualizations of word-music relations and of the controversial classical-popular binary …

Musicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to
explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology …

This book is not about music or politics. It is about the'and'that binds them together. How do
these fields intersect, and what theories and approaches can help us understand their …

Popular music is perhaps the most international mode of communication, yet social research
on this phenomenon remains strongly national in orientation. Recent research begins to …

In this essay, I intend to draw on an unorthodox and interdisciplinary range of sources, both
scholarly and popular, to investigate the politics of music and emotion as they are affected …

Since the establishment of the Internet as an aspect of everyday life in the Western world,
popular culture has generated new prospects for artists and other cultural agents to …

This book explores a provocative area of inquiry for critical theory and research into world
politics and popular culture: music. Not just because political science barely engages with …

From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of
youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricably linked. This collection reveals …

Much is made in popular music studies of the decisive and differentiating role of mediations.
Yet almost nothing is made of the most fundamental set of differentiating mediations, without …