Popular Music Studies

The study of popular music has reached an exciting and important moment in its development. Popular Music Studies introduces students to the most significant debates in the field, offering fresh perspectives and suggesting new directions. Genuinely interdisciplinary on scope, the book outlinesthe history and development of popular music studies while offering and unprecedentedly international perspective on popular music, featuring writers from North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Combining insights from media and cultural studies, sociology,music analysis, ethnomusicology, and performance studies, the essays cover textual analysis, place and space, production, consumption, and everyday life.

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.