Popular Music

Papers
(The median citation count of Popular Music is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Spotify and the democratisation of music27
Broadening research in gender and music practice7
Sonic branding and the aesthetic infrastructure of everyday consumption7
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on music festival attendees7
Music and misogyny: a content analysis of misogynistic, antifeminist forums6
The origins of syncopation in American popular music5
Ghanaian highlife sound recordings of the 1970s: the legacy of Francis Kwakye and the Ghana Film Studio4
Locating liveness in holographic performances: technological anxiety and participatory fandom at Vocaloid concerts4
Prosecuting rap: what does the case law tell us?4
Songs of tractors and submission: on the assembled politicity of popular music and far-right populism in Austria3
Shaping rhythm: timing and sound in five groove-based genres3
Copping the blame: the role of YouTube videos in the criminalisation of UK drill music2
Understanding Records. A Field Guide to Recording Practice. Second Edition. By Jay Hodgson. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. 233 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-4237-02
The Ugandan hip-hop image: the uses of activism and excess in fragile sites2
Challenges facing regional live music venues: A case study of venues in Armidale, NSW2
Ban rap and drill lyrics in the courtroom2
Rethinking singing on screen: the case for contemporary American ‘screensong’ across the film musical, music television and the music video2
Schoolhouse rap2
Recording studios as museums? Record producers’ perspectives on German rock studios and accounts of their heritage practice2
The ambivalence of becoming a small business: Learning processes within an aspiring rock band2
Kaitiakitanga, Whai Wāhi and Alien Weaponry: indigenous frameworks for understanding language, identity and international success in the case of a Māori metal band1
Online musicking for humanity: the role of imagined listening and the moral economies of music sharing on social media1
Under suspicion: library music and the Musicians’ Union in Britain, 1960–19781
Populist performance(s) in contemporary Greek rap music1
The regime of style: cover versions, reality TV, and the aesthetic principles of populism in Israel and beyond1
Musicking assemblages and non-human becomings: Mapping morphogenetic processes and distributed agencies in Wolfgang Buttress’ the Hive1
Live and direct? Censorship and racialised public morality in grime and drill music1
Unknown Pleasure: interpretations of the mystery hiss in Feist's 2017 album1
Resisting the criminalisation of rap1
Keith Jarrett: A Biography. By Wolfgang Sandner. Translated by Chris Jarrett. Sheffield: Equinox, 2020. 215 pp. ISBN 97818005001121
The people vs. the power bloc? Popular music and populism1
Are workers musicians? Kesha Sebert, Johanna Wagner and the gendered commodification of star singers, 1853–20141
Introduction to special issue: Prosecuting and Policing Rap1
Media discourses and marketing strategies in the advertising of the pianola1
‘We come from the underground’: grounding Chinese punk in Beijing and Wuhan1
‘Daddy-callin’ Mamas’ and ‘Jelly Beans’: sex work and ribaldry in the blues archive1
‘I say high, you say low’: the Beatles and cultural hierarchies in 1960s and 1970s Britain1
In Memory of Toru Mitsui (1940–2023)0
Genre Publics. Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia. By Emma Baulch. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2020. 227 pp. ISBN 978-0-81995-7964-50
The logic of distinctions in the Hungarian jazz field: a case study0
Beyond ‘puffins and moss’: Iceland Airwaves and post-crash musical tourism0
Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism. By Adam de Paor-Evans. South Yorkshire: Equinox Publishing, 2020. ISBN 97817817964500
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Expert or advocate? The role(s) of the expert witness when rap is on trial0
The Future of Live Music. Edited by Ewa Mazierska, Les Gillon and Tony Rigg. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. 229 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-5887-50
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Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford. By Andy Hamilton. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 256 pp. ISBN 97815013664680
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British Progressive Pop 1970–1980. By Andy Bennett. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 162 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5013-3663-80
Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. By Andrew Simon. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-150-363-14410
Hip-Hop en français. An Exploration of Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World. Edited by Alain-Philippe Durand. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 2020. 233 pp. ISBN 978-1-538-11632-60
The Greatest Rock and Soul Band in the World? The Rolling Stones, genre and race0
From Op shops to hip-hop: utilising used vinyl records to create a loop library0
‘Something else is possible’: transcultural collaboration as anti-apartheid activism in the music of Juluka0
Were You There? Popular music at Manchester's Free Trade Hall – 1951 to 1996. By Richard Lysons. Manchester: Empire Publications, 2020, 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-909360-81-50
Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town. By Langston Collins Wilkins. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2023. 180.pp. ISBN: 9780252087295.0
The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and Legacy. By Paul F. Berliner. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 609 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-62868-40
The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900. Edited by Laura Hamer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xxxii + 325 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-45578-70
The Cambridge Companion to The Drum Kit. Edited by Matt Brennan, Joseph Michael Pignato and Daniel Akira Stadnicki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 264 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-74765-3.0
On Popular Music and its Unruly Entanglements. Edited by Nick Braae and Kai Arne Hansen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 269 pages. ISBN 978-3-030-18098-00
The Identitarian movement and fashwave music: The nostalgia and anger of the new far right in Denmark0
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The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music. Edited by Nanette de Jong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 247 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42192-80
What has the BBC ever done for us?0
Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology. By Alexander Ghedi Weheliye. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-2521-40
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Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Edited by Susan Fast and Craig Jennex. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. 338pp. ISBN: 978-1-138-05586-50
Living from Music in Salvador: Professional Musicians and the Capital of Afro-Brazil. By Jeff Packman. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2021. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-819-58048-10
The Original Blues: the Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville. By Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 420 pp. ISBN: 10 14968232650
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Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hand. By Salomé Voegelin. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2023. 122 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-4540-1; Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound. B0
Lives in Music0
Distillation of Sound, Dub and the Creation of Culture. By Eric Abbey. Bristol: Intellect, 2022. 187 pp. ISBN 978-1-78938-539-70
Fight The Power: Law and Policy through Hip-Hop Songs. Edited by Gregory S. Parks and Frank Rudy Cooper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 300 pp. ISBN: 978-1-009-01153-20
Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades. By Daniel B. Sharp. Bloomsbury Academic, 33 1/3 Brazil series, 2021. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-1-501-34570-80
Postcolonial paths of pop: a suburban psychogeography of George Michael and Wham!0
Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa. By Barbara Titus. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-37776-10
Eurasian entanglements: notes towards a planetary perspective of popular music histories0
Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power. By Larisa Kingston Mann. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 242 pp. ISBN: 9780
The performance of machine aesthetics: acoustic reimagining of electronic music0
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Gender in Music Production. Edited By Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Jay Hodgson, Liesl King and Mark Marrington. New York: Routledge, 2020. 290 pp. ISBN 97804294645150
The Northern Soul Scene. Edited by Sarah Raine, Tim Wall and Nicola Watchman Smith. Sheffield: Equinox, 2019. 353 pp. ISBN 9781781795576 (hardback), 9781781795590 (ePDF)0
Pop Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem: From Cassettes to Stream. Edited by Tamás Tófalvy and Emília Barna. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. 257 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-44658-1 - Made in Hu0
I'll Be Your Plaything. By Anna Szemere and András Rónai. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 139 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-35443-40
Machines and music: instrumental contributions to bluegrass0
Songs for a Revolution: The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany. By Eckhard John and David Robb. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2020. 384 pp. ISBN 16401404840
Music, City and the Roma Under Communism. By Anna G. Piotrowska. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 208 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-8081-50
‘Comme une chanson de Bruant’: marginality, nostalgia and protest during the 1968 years0
The Journal of Beatles Studies. Edited by Holly Tessler and Paul Long. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. 177 pp. ISBN 978-1-802-07766-70
Pop Music Education in the UK. By Norton York, 2021. 415pp. RSL. ISBN 978-1-78936-346-30
Made in Hong Kong. Studies in Popular Music. Edited by Anthony Fung and Alice Chik. London: Routledge, 2020. 234 pp. ISBN 978-0-367-22698-50
John Lennon'sPlastic Ono Bandas ‘first-person music’: notes on the politics of self-expression in rock music since 19700
Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music. By Tes Slominski. Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2020. 256 pp. ISBN 97808195792700
Playing with medium: Intertextuality and phonomatic transformation0
Niemen Enigmatic. By Mariusz Gradowski and Ewa Mazierska. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 33 1/3 Europe Series, 2022. 160 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-37266-70
The History of Live Music in Britain, volume 2: 1968–1984. From Hyde Park to the Hacienda. By Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan and Emma Webster. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019. 242 pp0
Songs for ‘Great Leaders’: Ideology and creativity in North Korean music and dance. By Keith Howard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 349 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-007751-80
A Blaze of Light in Every Word. Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice. By Victoria Malawey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-190-05221-80
Great Songwriting Techniques. By Jack Perricone. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 379 pp. ISBN: 97801999676740
Can't nobody tell me nothin’: ‘Old Town Road’, resisting musical norms, and queer remix reproduction0
Caliphate Pop. By Mandus Ridefelt, Hasan Özgür Top and Assem Hendawi. Stockholm: Sarnama Press, 2022. 157pp. ISBN 7-2182-527-91-9780
What's behind the ‘K’? Common audio features of Korean popular music before and after the rise of K-POP0
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The Salut les copains generation0
The ‘System of National Cooperation’ hit factory: the aesthetic of Hungarian government-commissioned songs between 2010 and 20200
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Los sentimientos del alma: cultural dialogue and the multiple origins of Panamanian típico0
Ivo Papazov's Balkanology. By Carol Silverman. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 331/3 Europe Series. 2021. 161 pp. ISBN: 97815013463090
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The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism and Biopolitics. By Robin James. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 245 pp. ISBN 978-14780066400
What is Post-Punk? Genre and Identity in Avant-Garde Popular Music, 1977–82. By Mimi Haddon. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 226 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-13182-20
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives. By Burt Feintuch. Edited by Jeannie Banks Thomas. With photographs by Gary Samson. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi. 2022. 267pp. ISBN 978-1-4968-4246-60
Anti-populist populism: Musical challenges to Trump's America and Erdoğan's Turkey0
The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c. 1956–1975. By Gillian A.M. Mitchell. London and New York: Anthem Press, 2019. 199 pp. ISBN 9781783089093 and 17830890910
‘The practice of the twanged instruments’. Evaluating the amateur fretted instrument orchestra in British popular musical life, c.1890–c.19600
Lipsynching. By Merrie Snell. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 185 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-5234-80
Cruisicology: The Music Culture of Cruise Ships. By David Cashman and Philip Hayward. London: Lexington Books, 2020. 104 pp. ISBN 978-1-7936-0202-20
The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight. By Peter C. Zimmerman. The University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 324 pp. ISBN: 97814968322210
The country and Irish problem0
American music writing: an unruly history0
Assembling ‘indigeneity’ through musical practices: translocal circulations, ‘tradition’, and place in Otavalo (Ecuadorian Andes)0
Annihilating Noise. By Paul Hegarty. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-3544-00
Made in Scotland. Studies in Popular Music. Edited by Simon Frith, Martin Cloonan and John Williamson. New York: Routledge, 2024. 185 pp. ISBN 978-1-032-16197-60
Popular Music Autobiography: The Revolution in Life-Writing by 1960s Musicians and Their Descendants. By Oliver Lovesey. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. 366 pp. ISBN: 978-15013558370
Hip-hop sampling aesthetics and the legacy ofGrand Upright v. Warner0
‘Scottish people can't rap’: the local and global in Scottish hip-hop0
Independent Music and Digital Technologies in the Philippines. By Monika E. Schoop. New York: Routledge, [2017] 2019. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-367-23151-40
‘Mama, he treats your daughter mean’: Reassessing the narrative of British R&B with Ottilie Patterson0
Under suspicion: library music and the Musicians’ Union in Britain, 1960–1978 – CORRIGENDUM0
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Pop Music and Hip Ennui: A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism. By Macon Holt. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 208 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-4666-80
Récital 1961. By David L. Looseley, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 113 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-6210-10
Listening to Anohni's variously vibrating voice: studying transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture through the concept of vocal figurations0
Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies. By Paul Harkins. New York: Routledge, 2020. 208 pp. ISBN: 97813512099600
Representing Islam: Hip-hop of the September 11 Generation. By Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020. 205 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-05304-60
Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. By Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco and Susana Moreno Fernández. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 160 pp. 978-0-199-92061-70
Mechanical instruments and everyday life: the player piano in Portugal0
The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer. Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion. By Gregor Gall. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. 295 pp. ISBN 978-1-52614-898-80
Music City Melbourne: Urban Culture, History and Policy. By Shane Homan, Seamus O'Hanlon, Catherine Strong and John Tebbutt. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2022. 213 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-36572-00
The Lifetime Soundtrack: Music and Autobiographical Memory. By Lauren Istvandy. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2019. 156 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78179-629-00
Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music: the Blues through The Beatles to Beyoncé. By Walter Everett. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. xii + 260 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5013-4595-10
The Politics of Vibration, Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice. By Marcus Boon, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-1839-10
Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos. By Malcolm James. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. 152 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-32072-90
‘Lost & Found’ or ‘Requiem for the new Mozambican man’: Musicking transition from a socialist single-party to a capitalist multiparty system (1987–1994)0
Shades of Springsteen: Politics, Love, Sports, and Masculinity. By John Massaro. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 255 pp. ISBN 978-1-9788-1616-90
Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalization. By Bruce Johnson. London: Routledge 2020. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1-138-57755-80
Songwriters vs. the recording industry: the use and abuse of statistics in UK streaming debates0
Musicians in Crisis: Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry. By Ioannis Tsioulakis. London: Routledge, 2021. 200 pp., 10 b/w illustrations. ISBN 978-1-138-61544-10
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Annoying Music in Everyday Life. By Felipe Trotta. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 209 pp. ISBN 9781501360626.0
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Not your ordinary drone: odes to the Bayraktar in the Russia–Ukraine war0
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s. By Emily J. Lordi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-478-00959-70
Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890–1945. Edited by Elodie A. Roy and Eva Moreda Rodríguez. London: Routledge, 2021. xv+268 pp. ISBN : 978-1-032-05711-80
Haunthenticity. Musical Replay and the Fear of the Real. By Tracy McMullen. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2019. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0819578532.0
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Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries. Edited by Richard Osborne and Dave Laing. Bristol: Intellect, 2021. 270 pp. ISBN 978-1-78938-253-20
‘With all praise to your exalted frequencies, consider me your friend’: listening, technology and musicking in the Church of Scientology0
Kardeş Türküler as ‘art action’: The multiple cultural heritages of Anatolia0
Weird American Music. By Dorothea Gail. Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2018. 413 pp. ISBN 978-3-8253-6956-90
How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal. By Steven Gamble. Routledge, 2021. 188 pp. ISBN 978-0-367-33955-50
From rage to riches: swag and capital in the Tanzanian hip hop industry0
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Live Music in America: A history from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé. By Steve Waksman. 2022. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 677 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-757053-10
When the dial goes Dylan: ‘premium’ radio, hybrid authenticity and Theme Time Radio Hour0
‘The Rains of Castamere’: medievalism, popular culture, and the music ofGame of Thrones0
The lives and work of Bob Dylan0
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The Musicians’ Syndicate and the contradictions of state control over music in Egypt0
Mathias Spahlinger. By Neil Thomas Smith. Bristol: Intellect Books 2021. 206 pp. ISBN 978 78938 334 80
Soundworks: Race, Sound, Poetry in Production. By Anthony Reed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. ISBN 97814780102100
Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology. By Chris Cutler. Thornton Heath: ReR Megacorp/November Books, 2020. 212 pp. ISBN 97809560184580
Popular Song in the 19th Century. Edited by Derek Scott. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 380 pp. ISBN: 978-2-503-60078-90
Negotiating girlhood in rock music: Nandi Bushell, prodigy discourse and adult mentor-fans0
Taking stock of a discourse: An integrative content analysis of musical structures and cultural stereotypes in top-10 German Schlager songs from 2009 to 20190
Kick it: A Social History of the Drum Kit. By Matt Brennan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-068387-00
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class. Edited By Ian Peddie. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. 616 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-34536-40
Scary Monsters. Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music. By Mark Duffett and Jon Hackett. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. ISBN 978-1-501-31337-00
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Is it Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967–2002. By Robert Christgau. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 444 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-0022-8. Book Reports: a Music Critic on0
The First Days of Berlin: The Sound of Change. By Ulrich Gutmair. Translated by Simon Pare. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. 212 pp. ISBN 978-15095473020
In Concert: Performing Musical Persona. By Philip Auslander. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 293 pp. ISBN 9780472054718.0
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture. Edited by Nicholas Cook, Monique M. Ingalls and David Trippett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 332 pp. ISBN 978-1-316-61407-50
The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre and Vocality. By Nina Sun Eidsheim. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6868-70
The role and function of jazz competitions in Belgium, 1932–19390
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Japanese women singer-songwriters of the 1970s: female agency, musical impact and social change0
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research. Edited by Allan Moore and Paul Carr. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 636pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-3045-20
Spinning the Child. Musical Constructions of Childhood through Records, Radio and Television. By Liam Maloy. London: Routledge, 2020. 236 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-57156-30
Celtic music, Shakespeare and fandom0
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Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond. By G.J. Breyley and Sasan Fatemi. London: Routledge, 2016. 230 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-57512-60
John C. Hajduk, Music Wars: Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. 216 pp. ISBN: 978-14985758740
Mainstream popular music research: a musical update0
Designing the Music Business. Design Culture, Music Video and Virtual Reality. By Guy Morrow. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020. 210 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-48113-10
Form as Harmony in Rock Music. By Drew Nobile. Oxford University Press, 2020. 268 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-094835-10
Everyone Loves Live Music. A Theory of Performance Institutions. By Fabian Holt. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2020. 344 pp. ISBN 9780226738543.0
A place outside the pandemic? An ethnographic study of live music events at St Gallen's cultural venue Palace during the COVID-19 crisis0
Making mirrors, making albums and making documentaries: the music of Gotye and negotiating Bourdieu's field of cultural production0
A Women's History of The Beatles. By Christine Feldman-Barrett. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 257 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-7594-10
Robert Johnson and spectral timbre: what we hear, what we construct0
Musical Models of Democracy. By Robert Adlington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 223 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-765881-90
Media discourses and marketing strategies in the advertising of the pianola–CORRIGENDUM0
How concert promoters think: five approaches to concert promotion in Norway0
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London. By Oskar Cox Jensen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi + 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-83056-00
Musical humour and caricatures in The Book of Mormon0
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The Beatles and Sixties Britain. By Marcus Collins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 365pp. ISBN: 978-1-108-47724-60
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Working Musicians: Labor and Creativity in Film and Television Production. By Timothy Taylor, 2023. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 254 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1987-90
Made in Finland. Studies in Popular Music. Edited by Toni-Matti Karjalainen and Kimi Kärki. London: Routledge, 2021. 276 pp. ISBN: 978-0-367-22891-00
DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US. Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community. By David Verbuč. New York, Routledge, 2022, 282 pp. ISBN: 978-1-032-04917-50
Manchester Unspun. Pop, Property and Power in the Original Modern City. By Andy Spinoza. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. pp.365. ISBN 978 1 5261 6845 0.0
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Dissonant Landscapes: Music, Nature, and the Performance of Iceland. By Tore Størvold. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2023. 216 pp. ISBN 978-0-819-50049-60
‘Viva Malta’: national unity, loyalty and the familiar in a post-independence Maltese song0
Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy. Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene. Chicago, IL: Open Universe, Carus Books, 2022. 346 pp. ISBN 978-1-63770-022-80
Shonen Knife's Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll. By Brooke McCorkle Okazaki. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. 156 pp. ISBN: 97815013479550
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Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007). By Dan Ozzi. New York: Mariner Books, 2021. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0-358-24430-1 - Cometbus #59: Post-Mortem. By Aaron0
‘What is music? Anything can be music’: Frank Zappa's theory of art0
Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music. By Nick Crossley. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 210 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5261-2603-00
The ‘Anchoring vi Schema’ and its relation to phrase rhythm in popular music0
Fluid revivals: retouring popular songs to restore a hydrological imaginary in the trans-Danube0
Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music. By Eric Weisbard. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 530 pp. 9781478014089.0
American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnography. By Benjamin J. Harbert. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2018. 312 pp. ISBN 97808195780130
A Band with Built-in Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk. By Peter Stanfield. London: Reaktion Books. 2021. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-789-14277-80
Raving. By McKenzie Wark. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, 136 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1938-10
A Philosophy of Cover Songs. By P.D. Magnus. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022. 145 pp. ISBN 978-1-800-64422-90
Sounding Dissent: Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism. By Stephen R. Millar. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-13194-50
DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media. By Ellis Jones. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 172 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-5963-70
Emo – How Fans Defined a Subculture. By Judith May Fathallah. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2020. 214 pp. ISBN 978-1-609-38724-20
This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz. By Peter Jones. Sheffield: Equinox, 2020. 263 pp. ISBN 13 97817817987440
Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine. By Maria Sonevytsky. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2019. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-8195-7916-40
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis. Edited by Lori A. Burns and Stan Hawkins. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. 464 pp. ISBN 9781501342332.0
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Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire. By Sarah Kirby. Martelsham: Boydell Press, 2022. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-1-783-27673-80
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius. By Harry Freedman. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. 274 pp. ISBN 978-1-4729-8727-3 - From This Broken Hill I Sing to You. By Marcia Pally. London: T&T Clark, 0
Reading Smile: History, Myth and American Identity in Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’ Long-Lost Album. By Dale Carter. London: Routledge, 2021. 166 pp. ISBN: 978-0-367-62286-20
The remembered future: Macedonian pop icon Toše Proeski and musical life after death0
The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music. By Melle Jan Kromhout. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 167 pp. ISBN 978-0-190-07014-40
The Globally Familiar. Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi. By Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 272 pp. ISBN 97814780112000
Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s. By Andrew F. Jones. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 292 pp. ISBN 978-1-5179-0206-30
Freestyling in war and peace: rap and transitional justice in Colombia0
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