Clubbing explores the cultures and spaces of clubbing. Divided into three sections:
Beginnings, The Night Out and Reflections, Clubbing includes first-hand accounts of …

* 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 …

Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music,
examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. It provides an …

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 …

Popular music has been called the soundtrack to our lives: we can hear it on the radio,
through our computer, on our iPod or mobile phone, via a CD player or vinyl record deck …

While tourism has been somewhat neglected in literature on the 'cultural economy', it
remains an important influence on cultural production, particularly within a global matrix of …

The expanding literature within film studies which has attempted to specify the
characteristics of cult has often done so through an opposition between the characteristics of …

In this paper we provide a consideration of sound and space. Much of the early literature on
this topic, we argue, failed to conceptualise sound adequately. More recent literature has …

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house
concerts and other types of DIY (" do-it-yourself") music venues and events in the United …

Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 provides the first broad scholarly discussion of
this music since 1990. The book critically examines key moments in the history of black …