Maps the changing nature of popular music and considers how popular music studies has expanded and developed to deal with these changes. The book discusses the

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

This volume documents the 19th edition of the biannual "International Association for the Study of Popular Music". In focus of the conference were present and f

There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? David Br