Popular Music and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Popular Music and Society 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ton Steine Scherben: A Unique Hybrid of Psychedelic Rock and Battle Song15
The Institutionalization of Inequality: Female Vocalists’ Struggles in the Chinese Jazz Scene12
“Just Beyond Our Reach”: Reggae, Decolonization, and Ambiguity in Aotearoa New Zealand10
Drowning Out Escapism: Performances of Transformative Confinement in the Work of Beyoncé and Harry Styles10
Eluding the State, Reimagining Malaysia: Controversy and Multicultural Heteroglossia in Namewee’s Music Videos9
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An “Integrated Effort,”8
Rockin’ the Free World! How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World8
The Furious Women and Victim Men of Turkish Pop Music: A Lyrical Exploration of Turkish Pop Hits of the 2000s6
American Punk and the Rhetoric of “Political Correctness”6
The Law of Averages: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in UK Music Streaming Debates5
Fikret Kızılok’s Songs as an Object of Memory and Protest in Türkiye4
This City Needs Street Music: Practices, Experiences, and Meanings in the Busking Scene of Hong Kong4
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An “Integrated Effort,” Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era:4
Listening, but Not Being Heard: Young Women, Popular Music, Streaming, and Radio3
DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community3
Listening to Bob Dylan3
R. Serge Denisoff Award3
R. Serge Denisoff Award3
Lesbian Feminist Music and Meaningful Community Work2
How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal , Steven Gamble, New York, Routledge, 2021, 188 pp., $48.95 (2
Distillation of Sound: Dub and the Creation of Culture2
Singing a New Technology of Car Riding: Jitney-Bus Songs, 1915-19172
Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi: Reppin’ the Flames2
“Town’s Dead”: Contemporary Irish Popular Music and Dublin City2
Copyright and the Ethics of Sampling: The Lesson of the Czech Music Scene2
Ramsey Lewis (1935-2022)2
Presenting the Studio on Record Covers: Changing the Understanding of Swedish Jazz Records2
Black Fatherhood, Hip Hop, and Inner Life: Reading Rapsody’s “The Man” and Mama Sol and the N.U.T.S.’s “Manhood”2
Tlaxihuiqui1
Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance1
Introspecting the History: Rhetorical Constructions in the Interconnectedness of Chinese Folk and Hip-Hop Music1
Popular Music Ontology (Taylor’s Version): Re-Recordings, the Rock Ideology, and Taylor Swift1
One More Turn after the Algorithmic Turn? Spotify’s Colonization of the Online Audio Space1
Women in the Studio: Creativity, Control and Gender in Popular Music Sound Production1
From Innocence to Experience, and Other Transitions in Selected Lyrics of John Prine1
Aesthetic Tensions in Metal Production: Genre Expectations, Technological Mediation, and Creative Freedom1
“More Champion than the Champions”: Female Masculinity in Lālehzari Music and Filmfarsi1
The Return to Craft: Taylor Swift, Nostalgia, and Covid-191
“Filipino Seekers of Fortune”: Jazz as Labor in 1920s Colonial Asia1
“The Secret Sauce”: Popular Jazz Performances on TikTok1
Holographic ABBA: Examining Fan Responses to ABBA’s Virtual “Live” Concert1
Popular Music and LGBTQ+ Identities in the Age of Streaming: An Explorative Audience Study1
Bob Dylan in the Attic: The Artist as Historian1
What was Lo-Fi?1
Recording Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Musicians: An Interview with Fury Young of FREER Records1
Judith Durham (1943-2022)1
Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music1
Digital Man or Jocko Homo: Rush, Devo, and competing visions of the technofuture1
Audiencing in China: Foreign Rock Musicians’ Perceptions of Difference and Sameness1
The Lo-Fi Lens: Interpretations of Memphis Rap Tape Rips in the Online Mediascape1
Musicians as Workers and the Gig Economy1
Managed Hearts: Emotional Labor and Structural Change in the Work of Young Female Music Managers in Hungary1
Make It Funky for Me: Black British Women’s Explorations of Britishness, Womanhood, and Artistry Through 2000s Music1
One Chord Is Fine, Two Chords Are Pushing It, Three Chords and You’re Into Jazz1
Sad Girls on TikTok: Musical and Multimodal Participatory Practices as Affective Negotiations of Ordinary Feelings and Knowledges in Online Music Cultures1
Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America , by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder, 0
K-Pop and the Creative Participatory Engagement of Thai Fans: When Cultural Hybridity Becomes Cultural Authenticity0
Musicians’ Unions and Live Music: Historical and Contemporary Challenges in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States0
Stylistic Contrasts and Social Implications in “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”0
The Closing of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland0
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres , by Kelefa Sanneh, New York, Penguin, 2021, 496 pp., $0
Stories and Data: Australian Musicians Navigating the Spotify for Artists Platform0
Cherokee Missed: Indigenous Influence and Natural Metaphysics in the Music of Jimi Hendrix0
Songwashing and Cultural Boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest: A Soft Power/Disempowerment Analysis of Israel’s Entry to Eurovision 2024 during the Israel-Hamas War0
Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze0
The Birth of Porto’s Jazz Scene: Culture, Spaces, and Networks0
Independent Music in Russia: Escapism, Patriotism and Protest (2008–2022)0
Other Ways of Knowing the Danish Music Industry: From Disorientation to Feminist Collective Capacity0
Dutch Politics of Music-Washing at Eurovision: The Monstrous Hybrid of Commodified Musical Legacies of Slavery, Imperialist Utopianism, and White Nationalism0
David Johansen (1950–2025)0
“I Felt Like a Normal Human Being”: Professional DJs’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Lockdowns0
Die Jim Crow0
White Stripes, White Rock: The Uncontested Blues Appropriations of the White Stripes0
What is “Heavy” in Metal? A Netnographic Analysis of Online Forums for Metal Musicians and Producers0
Listen to the Boat Engines: The Intimate Voicing of Taiwanese Indigenous Cosmopolitanism in Far Ocean Fishing Songs0
Disney’s “Jungle Sound”: Jazz and Wildness in Disney Animation0
The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up0
The Performance of Authenticity: The Making of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography The Performance of Authenticity: The Making of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography , Teo0
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America0
The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason: Dispatches from the Front0
Thirteen Bloodlines Planning a Genocide: COVID Conspiracies as a Form of White Ignorance in the Finnish Rap Song “Tuku Tuku”0
Pop Music Diegesis and the 360º Video0
Tree Indeed0
“More Where That Came From”: How the Voice of Randy Travis Helps to Normalize AI0
Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure , Maria Golia, London, Reaktion, 2022, 368 pp., $22.50 (hardback), ISBN0
Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies0
“Both Sides Now”: Folk-Rock Authorship, Interpretation, and the Cover Version0
Sound Shelter: Ease of Listening as a Way of Dwelling0
Mobile Safe Spaces and Preset Emotions: Making Music with Apps as a Digital Technology of the Self0
Howard S. Becker, 1928–20230
Stage, Street, Garden, or Parlour: The Ubiquitous Popular Songs of Late Georgian England0
“I Am at Home, I Am French”—Notions of Be/Longing in Afro-French Rapper Black M’s Music0
Segue-me à Capela: Inclusion and Resilience Strategies in Traditional Portuguese Music0
Lyrical, Musical, and Thematic Dualities in Wings’ Venus and Mars0
Fangirling While Black: K-pop, Affect, and the Reproduction/Rejection of Blackness0
Reconfiguring Genre, Style, and Idiolect: Investigating Progressive Rock’s Meta-Genre and Affordances0
“Go Out and Bring Me Lazarus”:O Brother, Allegory, and a Work Song’s Circuitous Journey0
God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music0
The (New) Awakening of Soviet Jazz Culture in the 1960s0
“Everyday Fidelity”: Analyzing Sound Quality in Ubiquitous Listening Practices0
Cover Culture: The Social Reproduction of a Repetitive Practice in İzmir’s Popular Music Scene0
Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below0
The Beatles Reconceptualized as Jazz: A Musical Entry Point into Cultural, Racial, and Historical Considerations0
Lalo Schifrin (1932–2025)0
Greg Shaw Award0
“Big Map Idea”: Diasporic Currents in South African Music0
Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen , by Paul Hegarty, London, Reaktion Books, 2018, 248 pp., $16.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-78023-976-70
“Shade Never Made Anybody Less Gay”: Taylor Swift’s Performance of Allyship and the Neoliberalization of Activism0
Screaming, Crying, Writing Up: Literary Music Journalism Books as a Legitimization of Contemporary Fangirl Practices0
The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me0
Groove Therapy0
Showing Off as Selling Out: Online (Self-)Promotional Strategies of Grassroots Electronic Dance Musicians0
The Benefits of Collaborative Popular Music Songwriting: A Spectrum of Artist-Songwriter Involvement0
Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan0
The Force of Environmental Lyrics in Pop Songs: The Case of Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach0
“I’ll Also with My Poverty, Buy All Your Sadness”: Tataloo and the Tatality Fanbase in Iran0
Achievement in Sound: Brian Wilson, 1942‒20250
Making and Visualizing Music in the Bedroom and Living House, Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Billie Eilish and Fiona Apple0
Safer Covachas —Preserving Digital Music in Cassettes: Grassroots Archiving Practices of Independent Record Labels in Contemporary Argentina0
Patches of Survival in the Anthropocene: Melancholy and Ecstasy within Go_A’s 2021 Eurovision Song Contest Performance of “SHUM” (ШУМ)0
The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora , by Ádám Havas, New York, Routledge, 2022, 194 pp., $10
Correction0
Introduction: Gender and Popular Music Knowledge0
An Exploration of the East Indian and African Music Traditions in Trinidad and Tobago: The Case of Mungal Patasar and Pantar0
“She Takes Me by the Hand”: Gender and Intergenerational Relationality in a Peruvian Carnival Music Video Production0
Introduction to Special Issue: Home, Work, and Music - Toward a Domestic Turn in Popular Music Studies0
Correction0
Critiquing the “What Is Jazz” Puzzle in a Diasporic Setting: “Jazz-Related” Performance and Patronage in Australia before “Jazz”0
Re-Membering Music Worlds: Exhibiting the Rebel Women of Manchester’s Suffragette City0
Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South0
“Redirect the Hate”: Plato, Powerviolence, and the Metaphysics of Anger0
De-Professionalization in the Recording Studio: How the Movement Towards Remote DIY Home Recording Has Impacted the Professional Trajectory of Australian Session Vocalists0
“I’m in the House Bored”: TikTok’s Sonic Mediation of Boredom and Class in the Pandemic Home0
Jimmy Cliff (1944–2025)0
Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone0
Bobby Sherman (1943–2025)0
Musicking Assemblages and the Material Contingency of Sound: Mostly Other People Do the Killing’s Re-enactment of Kind of Blue0
Recording in and Around Home: Situating the Authentic and the Local in the Digital Dissemination of Folk Music from Bengal0
Peter Blegvad and Song-as-Philosophy0
R. Serge Denisoff Award0
Western Bias, Canonicity, and Cultural Globalization: Introduction to “Jazz Diasporas”0
Listening at Home and Beyond: Music Polymedia and Everyday Life0
Singing the New Scot: Parody, Contrafacta, and Dainty Protest Songs in Cape Breton0
Sensing Vinyl: Ritual, Memory, Materiality0
Métis In the Mainstream: The Ambivalent Blackness and Legacy of Henri Salvador0
Soundtracking Conspiracy Theory: Nonfictional Worldmaking and Audio-Epistemic Strategies in Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009/2015)0
Property, Policy, and the Home as Recording Space in Iceland0
Crooner: Singing from the Heart from Sinatra to Nas0
Revisiting the South Korean Youth Culture and T’ongkit’a Music0
“Pedro Navaja” and the Making of Rubén Blades, the Storyteller0
Rockin’ the Regime: Mormon Missionaries, American Popular Music, and the Fading of Spanish Fascism0
Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves0
Local Digital: Staging Geographies and Sonic Identities Through Auto-Tune Effects and Streaming Sites in North Indian Popular Music0
Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music0
Being a Musician in Socialist Mozambique: From Invisibility to Unfeasibility (1974–1994)0
The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy0
Performing Affects: Precarity, Liminality, Belonging, and the Strategies of a Migrant Bandleader within a South African Music Scene0
Communicating Healing Through Ethnic Music: An Analysis of Shona Indigenous Approaches to Psycho-Social Support for the Bereaved as Projected Through Selected Songs by Oliver Mtukudzi0
Subverting the Restorative Nostalgia of Black Metal: Reading Swiss Band Zeal & Ardor Through an Afropessimistic Lens0
“I’d Have to Be Crazy if I Did it Strictly on a Financial Basis”: Australian Regional Music Venues, Burnout, and Precarious Music Ecologies0
Searching for “Australia’s Woodstock”: The Forgotten Australian Rock Festivals of 1970 – 19750
Out on the Floor: Exploring the London Lesbian Club Scene of the 1980s and 1990s0
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States0
Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022)0
The Labor Process of Relational Labor: The Case of the K-pop Fan Platform “Bubble”0
Music-making Beyond the Pub: The Importance of Community Music and DIY Enterprise in Maintaining Regional Music Scenes (Gippsland Case Study)0
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