Popular Music

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Raving. By McKenzie Wark. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, 136 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1938-19
Auto-Tune as instrument: trap music's embrace of a repurposed technology7
Musical humour and caricatures in The Book of Mormon6
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 : 978-1-032-05711-86
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 978-1-4968-4246-65
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: 978-0-367-62286-25
The lives and work of Bob Dylan5
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: 978-0-819-58048-15
Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades. By Daniel B. Sharp. Bloomsbury Academic, 33 1/3 Brazil series, 2021. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-1-501-34570-84
Sounding Dissent: Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism. By Stephen R. Millar. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-13194-54
SamBop NYC: Brazilian Jazz in New York City during the New Millennium. By Marc Gidal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 253 pp. ISBN 0197619053.4
The Greatest Rock and Soul Band in the World? The Rolling Stones, genre and race3
‘You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby’: Authenticating Popular Music Tribute Shows3
Celtic music, Shakespeare and fandom3
The Contributors3
Songwriters vs. the recording industry: the use and abuse of statistics in UK streaming debates2
Prosecuting rap: what does the case law tell us?2
The Many Meanings of Mina: Popular Music Stardom in Post-War Italy. By Rachel Haworth. Bristol: Intellect, 2022, 240 pp. ISBN 978-1-78938-560-12
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Unknown Pleasure: interpretations of the mystery hiss in Feist's 2017 album2
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What Do Musicians Think of Digital Platforms?2
Mathias Spahlinger. By Neil Thomas Smith. Bristol: Intellect Books 2021. 206 pp. ISBN 978 78938 334 82
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Schoolhouse rap1
Kardeş Türküler as ‘art action’: The multiple cultural heritages of Anatolia1
Shades of Springsteen: Politics, Love, Sports, and Masculinity. By John Massaro. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 255 pp. ISBN 978-1-9788-1616-91
The Social Life of an Optimised Song: Reconstructing the Networked Cycle of Digital Music-Making1
Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music. By Eric Weisbard. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 530 pp. 9781478014089.1
In Search of Tito's Punks. On the Road in a Country That No Longer Exists. By Barry Phillips. Bristol: Intellect, 2023, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-78938-731-51
Pop Music Education in the UK. By Norton York, 2021. 415pp. RSL. ISBN 978-1-78936-346-31
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London. By Oskar Cox Jensen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi + 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-83056-01
Listening to Anohni's variously vibrating voice: studying transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture through the concept of vocal figurations1
Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories. By Noel Lobley. Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. 2022. ISBN 978-0-8195-8077-1.1
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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 16401404841
Machines and music: instrumental contributions to bluegrass1
A place outside the pandemic? An ethnographic study of live music events at St Gallen's cultural venue Palace during the COVID-19 crisis1
‘Viva Malta’: national unity, loyalty and the familiar in a post-independence Maltese song1
Copping the blame: the role of YouTube videos in the criminalisation of UK drill music1
The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music. By Melle Jan Kromhout. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 167 pp. ISBN 978-0-190-07014-41
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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
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
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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
Annihilating Noise. By Paul Hegarty. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-3544-00
Inventing Elvis. An American Icon in a Cold War World. By Mathias Haeussler. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. 240 pp. ISBN 97813501076700
The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. Edited by Jan-Peter Herbst and Steve Waksman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 356 pp. ISBN:97810092244510
Distillation of Sound, Dub and the Creation of Culture. By Eric Abbey. Bristol: Intellect, 2022. 187 pp. ISBN 978-1-78938-539-70
Negotiating Standards and Songwriting Myths in the Age of Platformisation: Sessions, Camps, and Their Functional Rules and (Media) Formats0
Popular Song in the 19th Century. Edited by Derek Scott. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 380 pp. ISBN: 978-2-503-60078-90
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
Krautrock. By Marshall Gu. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 168 pp. ISBN: 978-8-7651-0329-6.0
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
Récital 1961. By David L. Looseley, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 113 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-6210-10
PMU volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Soundscapes of ecofeminism. Negotiating gender and environment through pop music0
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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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
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The performance of machine aesthetics: acoustic reimagining of electronic music0
‘The practice of the twanged instruments’. Evaluating the amateur fretted instrument orchestra in British popular musical life, c.1890–c.19600
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 Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class. Edited By Ian Peddie. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. 616 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-34536-40
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
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
Online musicking for humanity: the role of imagined listening and the moral economies of music sharing on social media0
Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music. By Franz Nicolay. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. 295 pp. ISBN 978-1-4773-2353-3.0
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
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
The Bastard Instrument: A Cultural History of the Electric Bass. By Brian F. Wright. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2024. 392 pp. ISBN: 978-0472056811.0
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Mainstream popular music research: a musical update0
Playing with medium: Intertextuality and phonomatic transformation0
Playing the Changes. Jazz at an African University and on the Road. By Darius Brubeck and Catherine Brubeck. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2023. 321 pp. ISBN 978 186914 528 60
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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States. By Matthew D. Morrison. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. 304 pp. ISBN 97805203905910
Negotiating girlhood in rock music: Nandi Bushell, prodigy discourse and adult mentor-fans0
Los sentimientos del alma: cultural dialogue and the multiple origins of Panamanian típico0
‘Something else is possible’: transcultural collaboration as anti-apartheid activism in the music of Juluka0
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
‘People Sing When They're Happy’: Popular Music in 1970s Soviet Comedic Cinema0
Under suspicion: library music and the Musicians’ Union in Britain, 1960–1978 – CORRIGENDUM0
Coded Lyrics: The Poetics of Argentine Rock under Censorship and Beyond. By Mara Favoretto. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. 192 pp. ISBN 9781835532300.0
The production of space and the changing character of the recording studio0
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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
Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town. By Langston Collins Wilkins. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2023. 180.pp. ISBN: 9780252087295.0
Listening to Mapuche sound in Illapu0
Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa. By Barbara Titus. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-37776-10
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Shnur ‘Against Sincerity’: Aesthetics of Imperfection and Sincerity Anxieties in Twenty-First-Century Pop Culture0
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
Remastering Music and Cultural Heritage: Case Studies from Iconic Original Recordings to Modern Remasters. By Stephen Bruel. London and New York: Routledge, Perspectives on Music Production, 2024. 1440
The ‘Anchoring vi Schema’ and its relation to phrase rhythm in popular music0
Shaping rhythm: timing and sound in five groove-based genres0
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
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
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
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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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Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry. By Kyle Barnett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-03877-0.0
Jarmark. By Kamila Rymajdo. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic. 33 1/3 Europe series. 2025. 126 pp. ISBN 97987651030670
Rethinking the Eco-Recording Studio: Technologies, Aesthetics, and Discourse in Popular Music Production0
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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
A Women's History of The Beatles. By Christine Feldman-Barrett. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 257 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-7594-10
Alone in the Crowd? Live Music Audiences and Individual Experience0
Under suspicion: library music and the Musicians’ Union in Britain, 1960–19780
In Concert: Performing Musical Persona. By Philip Auslander. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 293 pp. ISBN 9780472054718.0
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Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings. By Marisol Negrón. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 328 pp. ISBN 1478026669.0
Expert or advocate? The role(s) of the expert witness when rap is on trial0
Flannery at the Grammys. By Irwin H. Streight. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2024. 312 pp. ISBN: 9781496850218.0
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
Adaptation and Optimisation across Audiovisual Platforms: Hot Song Production in the Chinese Music Industry0
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on music festival attendees0
Introduction by Peter Wicke0
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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Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. By Katherine Rye Jewell. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 480 pp. ISBN 978-1469676203.0
‘What is music? Anything can be music’: Frank Zappa's theory of art0
Ivo Papazov's Balkanology. By Carol Silverman. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 331/3 Europe Series. 2021. 161 pp. ISBN: 97815013463090
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
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The Lifetime Soundtrack: Music and Autobiographical Memory. By Lauren Istvandy. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2019. 156 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78179-629-00
Populist performance(s) in contemporary Greek rap music0
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
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz. By Gretchen L. Carlson. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1-496-84084-40
The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight. By Peter C. Zimmerman. The University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 324 pp. ISBN: 97814968322210
Musical Models of Democracy. By Robert Adlington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 223 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-765881-90
Music, City and the Roma Under Communism. By Anna G. Piotrowska. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 208 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-8081-50
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
Caliphate Pop. By Mandus Ridefelt, Hasan Özgür Top and Assem Hendawi. Stockholm: Sarnama Press, 2022. 157pp. ISBN 7-2182-527-91-9780
‘We come from the underground’: grounding Chinese punk in Beijing and Wuhan0
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Cosmopolitan localism as creative self-discovery: Greek Cypriot popular music in the 21st century0
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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
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
How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal. By Steven Gamble. Routledge, 2021. 188 pp. ISBN 978-0-367-33955-50
Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums. By Jeremy Braddock. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-39852-80
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
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The regime of style: cover versions, reality TV, and the aesthetic principles of populism in Israel and beyond0
Assembling ‘indigeneity’ through musical practices: translocal circulations, ‘tradition’, and place in Otavalo (Ecuadorian Andes)0
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
Scary Monsters. Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music. By Mark Duffett and Jon Hackett. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. ISBN 978-1-501-31337-00
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
How concert promoters think: five approaches to concert promotion in Norway0
What's behind the ‘K’? Common audio features of Korean popular music before and after the rise of K-POP0
Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire. By Sarah Kirby. Martelsham: Boydell Press, 2022. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-1-783-27673-80
Sandinista! By Micajah Henley. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 134 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-9036-40
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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
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All of the Birds Are Laughing: An Ecofeminist Interpretation of Female Pastoral in Kate Bush’s A Sky of Honey0
Songs of tractors and submission: on the assembled politicity of popular music and far-right populism in Austria0
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
Across the Platform Universe: Introduction0
Serge Gainsbourg. An International Perspective. Edited by Olivier Julien and Olivier Bourderionnet. New York: Bloomsbury, 2024. 259 pp. ISBN 978-1-5103-6566-90
Vaporwave and Hardvapour: Alternative temporalities, territorialities and identities after our holiday from history0
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
Ban rap and drill lyrics in the courtroom0
Locating liveness in holographic performances: technological anxiety and participatory fandom at Vocaloid concerts0
Not your ordinary drone: odes to the Bayraktar in the Russia–Ukraine war0
Hip-hop sampling aesthetics and the legacy ofGrand Upright v. Warner0
I'll Be Your Plaything. By Anna Szemere and András Rónai. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 139 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-35443-40
How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop. By Amy Coddington. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 226 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-38392-00
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
Faire carrière dans le rap au Burkina Faso. Une anthropologie politique de la musique [Rap Careers in Burkina Faso: A Political Anthropology of Music]. By Anna Cuomo. Guichen: Mélanie Seteun, coll. Mu0
Wings with Strings Attached? Corporate Sponsorship and the Capacity to Aspire in Lebanon’s Alternative Music World0
Resisting the criminalisation of rap0
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From ‘we shall prevail’ to ‘weapon of struggle’: Populism, Chile'sUnidad Populargovernment andNueva Canción0
Robert Johnson and spectral timbre: what we hear, what we construct0
Anti-populist populism: Musical challenges to Trump's America and Erdoğan's Turkey0
Understanding the Representation of Women Electric Guitarists on Instagram0
Fifty Years of the Concept Album in Popular Music: From the Beatles to Beyoncé. By Mark Wolfson. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 264 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-9180-4.0
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
Hannibal Lokumbe: Spiritual Soundscapes of Music, Life, and Liberation. By Lauren Coyle Rosen and Hannibal Lokumbe. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 255 pp. ISBN 97802312178660
Utopianism, activism and networks: insights into the early work of János Maróthy0
In Memory of Toru Mitsui (1940–2023)0
‘With all praise to your exalted frequencies, consider me your friend’: listening, technology and musicking in the Church of Scientology0
Popular music studies behind the Iron Curtain: the constitution of popular music research in East-Central Europe before 19890
The 0161 rap gap: the marginalisation of Black rap musicians in Manchester's live music scene0
Sounds of pleasure and challenge behind the Iron Curtain: on the rise of Bulgarian rock music0
Fluid revivals: retouring popular songs to restore a hydrological imaginary in the trans-Danube0
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
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Glasgow: A History (Vol.1 of VI). By The Tenementals. Glasgow: Strength in Numbers Records, 2024. https://strengthinnumbersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/glasgow-a-history-volume-i-of-vi0
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This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz. By Peter Jones. Sheffield: Equinox, 2020. 263 pp. ISBN 13 97817817987440
Postcolonial paths of pop: a suburban psychogeography of George Michael and Wham!0
Review of The Purple One: Prince, Race, Gender, and Everything in Between . Edited By Judson L. Jeffries, Shannon M. Cochran, and Molly Reinhoudt. Missis0
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
Emo – How Fans Defined a Subculture. By Judith May Fathallah. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2020. 214 pp. ISBN 978-1-609-38724-20
DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media. By Ellis Jones. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 172 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-5963-70
The Musicians’ Syndicate and the contradictions of state control over music in Egypt0
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
The National Symphony Orchestra of Ghana plays Ghanaian Classics: negotiating multiple identities through highlife music0
Everyone Loves Live Music. A Theory of Performance Institutions. By Fabian Holt. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2020. 344 pp. ISBN 9780226738543.0
The people vs. the power bloc? Popular music and populism0
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The ‘System of National Cooperation’ hit factory: the aesthetic of Hungarian government-commissioned songs between 2010 and 20200
Philip Tagg (22 February 1944–9 May 2024)0
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Fantasies of Nina Simone. By Jordan Alexander Stein. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2024. 307 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-3070-6.0
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
Non-academic writing on popular music in the Czech lands after 19450
Sociology of popular music in Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)0
Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert. By Margaret Mehl. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2024. 449 pp. ISBN 978-180064-839-5.0
A heroism for the new times in the protest songs of Gerhard Gundermann0
Posh UK drill and the myth of the respectful parodist0
The remembered future: Macedonian pop icon Toše Proeski and musical life after death0
Musicking assemblages and non-human becomings: Mapping morphogenetic processes and distributed agencies in Wolfgang Buttress’ the Hive0
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
Weird American Music. By Dorothea Gail. Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2018. 413 pp. ISBN 978-3-8253-6956-90
‘Daddy-callin’ Mamas’ and ‘Jelly Beans’: sex work and ribaldry in the blues archive0
The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music. Edited by Nanette de Jong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 247 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42192-80
Live and direct? Censorship and racialised public morality in grime and drill music0
It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong. By Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet, and Leonie Schmidt. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 230 pp. ISBN 978-980
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
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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
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‘Lost & Found’ or ‘Requiem for the new Mozambican man’: Musicking transition from a socialist single-party to a capitalist multiparty system (1987–1994)0
Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalization. By Bruce Johnson. London: Routledge 2020. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1-138-57755-80
Freestyling in war and peace: rap and transitional justice in Colombia0
The Identitarian movement and fashwave music: The nostalgia and anger of the new far right in Denmark0
A Philosophy of Cover Songs. By P.D. Magnus. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022. 145 pp. ISBN 978-1-800-64422-90
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
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