Understanding Popular Music is a comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of
popular music. It begins with a critical assessment of the different ways in which popular …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic
approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their …

Rock music--powerful, sensual, loud, and full of energy. It has changed the face of modern
music. But what is its appeal and its significance within contemporary society, and what …

Since their beginnings, popular music studies have conducted an implicit (sometimes
explicit) dialogue with musicology. To be sure, the musicological side of this conversation …

Like any culture industry in a market economy, the role of the mus business is fundamentally
to transform its cultural products in financial rewards. This process, of course, has been …

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of
music-traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop-and each type of music tends to come with its …