The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music

Editor/Author Bennett, Andy
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Sage UK

Single-User Purchase Price: $175.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $262.50
ISBN: 978-1-44-621085-7
Category: Arts & Leisure - Music
Image Count: 2
Book Status: Available
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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.

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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