A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to i

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 giv

Offers a multidisciplinary analysis of Anglo-American popular music of the last two hundred years.

A lively contribution to the debates that are central to 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 de