The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music provides a highly comprehensive and accessible summary of the key aspects of popular music studies. This is a benchmark work which will be essential reading for educators and students in popular music studies, musicology, cultural studies, media studies and cultural sociology.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Introduction - Andy Bennett and Steve Waksman
• PART I THEORY AND METHOD
• Preface - Andy Bennett
• 1 The Many Worlds of Popular Music: Ethnomusicological Approaches - Kevin Dawe
• 2 Notes on Sociological Theory and Popular Music Studies - Motti Regev
• 3 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards: Mixing Pop, Politics and Cultural Studies - Gilbert B. Rodman
• 4 (Re)generations of Popular Musicology - Serge Lacasse
• 5 Archival Research and the Expansion of Popular Music History - Christine Feldman-Barrett
• PART II THE BUSINESS OF POPULAR MUSIC
• Preface - Steve Waksman
• 6 Power, Production and the Pop Process - Reebee Garofalo
• 7 Intermediaries and Intermediation - Devon Powers
• 8 Popular Musical Labor in North America - Matt Stahl
• 9 Music in Advertising in the US: History and Issues - Timothy D. Taylor
• PART III POPULAR MUSIC HISTORY
• Preface - Steve Waksman
• 10 Grinding Out Hits at the Song Factory - Keir Keightley
• 11 Popular Music Genres: Aesthetics, Commerce and Identity - David Brackett
• 12 Live Music History - Matt Brennan
• PART IV THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL
• Preface - Andy Bennett
• 13 African, African American, Middle Eastern and French Hip Hop - Tony Mitchell
• 14 Liminal Being: Electronic Dance Music Cultures, Ritualization and the Case of Psytrance - Graham St John
• 15 Everything Louder than Everyone Else: The Origins and Persistence of Heavy Metal Music and Its Global Cultural Impact - Andy R. Brown
• 16 Punk Rock, Hardcore and Globalization - Ross Haenfler
• PART V THE STAR SYSTEM
• Preface - Steve Waksman
• 17 Rock Stars as Icons - David R. Shumway
• 18 Everybody's in Show Biz: Performing Star Identity in Popular Music - Philip Auslander
• 19 Midnight Ramblers and Material Girls: Gender and Stardom in Rock and Pop - Jacqueline Warwick
• 20 Dark Cosmos: Making Race, Shaping Stardom - C. Riley Snorton
• PART VI BODY AND IDENTITY
• Preface - Andy Bennett
• 21 Blurred Lines, Gender and Popular Music - Sheila Whiteley
• 22 Popular Music, Race and Identity - Jon Stratton
• 23 Dancing the Popular: The Expressive Interface of Bodies, Sound and Motion - Sherril Dodds
• 24 Shaping the Past of Popular Music: Memory, Forgetting and Documenting - Catherine Strong
• PART VII MEDIA
• Preface - Andy Bennett
• 25 In Print and On Screen: The Changing Character of Popular Music Journalism - Simon Warner
• 26 Sight and Sound in Concert? The Interrelationship Between Music and Television - Tim Wall and Paul Long
• 27 Viewing With Your Ears, Listening With Your Eyes: Syncing Popular Music and Cinema - Scott Henderson
• 28 Beyond Napster: Popular Music and the Normal Internet - Nick Prior
• PART VIII TECHNOLOGY
• Preface - Steve Waksman
• 29 Phonography and the Recording in Popular Music - Patrick Feaster
• 30 Ghosts of Electricity: Amplification - Peter Doyle
• 31 Ubiquitous Musics: Technology, Listening and Subjectivity - Anahid Kassabian
• PART IX DIGITAL ECONOMIES
• Preface - Steve Waksman
• 32 Modes of Production: The Value of Modal Analysis for Popular Music Studies - Tim J. Anderson
• 33 Music, Copies and Essences - Joanna Demers
• 34 Authorship, Ownership and Musical Appropriation - Kembrew McLeod
• 35 Music Cartels and the Dematerialization of Power - Aram Sinnreich