This new edition of Popular Music and Society, fully revised and updated, continues to
pioneer an approach to the study of popular music that is informed by wider debates in …

The Popular Music Studies Reader maps the changing nature of popular music over the last
decade and considers how popular music studies has expanded and developed to deal with …

Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, the second
edition of Understanding Society through Popular Music uses popular music to illustrate …

A lively contribution to the debates that are central to popular music studies. Winner of the
International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Book Award (1998) …

This article provides a series of critical reflections on the development of sociological studies
in relation to popular music and the development of a cultural sociology of popular music …

The Cultural Study of Music is an anthology of new writings that serves as a basic textbook
on music and culture. Increasingly, music is being studied as it relates to specific cultures …

* Nominated for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Prize*
Partly because they are the objects of such intense adulation by fans popular musicians …

Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agendas.
The music industry has changed in recent years, as has governmental involvement in …

Culture: the word is one of the most complex in the English language, as Raymond Williams
(1983, 87) points out, but this has proved little handicap to its spread; it's everywhere. We …

Despite the debates surrounding media audiences, it seems that little work within popular
music studies has engaged directly with those who consume, listen to and use popular …