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  • Unsilenced

    Women Musicians, Gender-Based Violence, and the Popular Music Industry

    2026 PROSE Award Finalist in Music & The Performing ArtsThis book explores gender-based violence within the music industry, and how women who have experienced violence represent it in their music.Using the key case studies of music by Kesha, Lingua Ignota, and Alice Glass, as well as many other examples from across the musical landscape, the book examines how the artists represent their ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Interrogating Popular Music and the City

    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music? Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Music and cities have been partners in an often clumsy, sometimes accidental but always exciting dance. Heritage and immigration, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Music City Melbourne

    Urban Culture, History and Policy

    How did Melbourne earn its place as one of the world's 'music cities'? Beginning with the arrival of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, this book explores the development of different sectors of Melbourne's popular music ecosystem in parallel with broader population, urban planning and media industry changes in the city.The authors draw on interviews with Melbourne musicians, venue owners and policy ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Grunge: Music and Memory

    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'. Twenty years after the height of the movement there is still considerable interest in its rise and fall, and its main figures such as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. As a form of 'retro' music it is even experiencing a resurgence, and Cobain remains an icon to many young music fans today. But what was grunge, and what has it become ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Death and the Rock Star

    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the phrase ’sex, drugs and rock’n’roll’ ever qualified a lifestyle, it has left many casualties in its wake, and with the ranks ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage

    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past, and how interpretations of the changing nature of the past in post-industrial societies play out in the field of popular ... Read more

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    by Roy Shuker ...
    This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music, and the debates that surround popular culture and popular music.Reflecting the continued proliferation of popular music studies, the new music industry in a digital age, and the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Club Cultures

    Music, Media and Subcultural Capital

    This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves. ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Studying Popular Music Culture

    by Tim Wall ...
    That rare thing, an academic study of music that seeks to tie together the strands of the musical text, the industry that produces it, and the audience that gives it meaning... A vital read for anyone interested in the changing nature of popular music production and consumption"- Dr Nathan Wiseman-Trowse, The University of NorthamptonPopular music entertains, inspires and even empowers, but where ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture

    Edited by Peter Childs, Michael Storry ...
    Series series Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture
    Boasting more than 970 alphabetically-arranged entries, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture surveys British cultural practices and icons in the latter half of the twentieth century. It examines high and popular culture and encompasses both institutional and alternative aspects of British culture. It provides insight into the whole spectrum of British contemporary life. Topics covered ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Remembering Popular Music’s Past

    Memory-Heritage-History

    Remembering Popular Music’s Past capitalizes on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music’s material past and on scholarly explorations of the ways in which popular music, as heritage, is produced, legitimized and conferred cultural and historical significance. The chapters in this collection consider the spaces, practices and representations that constitute popular ... Read more

    $35.99 USD