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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Saturation Season: Inclusivity, Queerness, and Aesthetics in the New Media Practices of Brockhampton22
Tony Williams—The Signature Voice of The Platters: Volume One, 1955–196116
Robins, Bluebirds, Buzzards, and Orioles: The Bobby Day Story, 1952–1962Robins, Bluebirds, Buzzards, and Orioles: The Bobby Day Story, 1952–1962, Bobby Day, Jasmine Records JASCD 1077, 2021, CD, $13.013
“Just Beyond Our Reach”: Reggae, Decolonization, and Ambiguity in Aotearoa New Zealand12
What Is Popular Music? What Is an Album? A Review of Two Recordings What Is Popular Music? What Is an Album? A Review of Two Recordings Towards a Frontier 12
Ton Steine Scherben: A Unique Hybrid of Psychedelic Rock and Battle Song10
Drowning Out Escapism: Performances of Transformative Confinement in the Work of Beyoncé and Harry Styles7
The Institutionalization of Inequality: Female Vocalists’ Struggles in the Chinese Jazz Scene7
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An “Integrated Effort,”5
Independent Canadian Music in the Streaming Age: The Sound from above (Critical Political Economy) and below (Ethnography of Musicians)5
Rockin’ the Free World! How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World5
Eluding the State, Reimagining Malaysia: Controversy and Multicultural Heteroglossia in Namewee’s Music Videos5
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture4
American Punk and the Rhetoric of “Political Correctness”4
“A Line from a Song that Punches You in the Stomach” –Music and the Negotiations of Cultural Memory in Facebook4
Fikret Kızılok’s Songs as an Object of Memory and Protest in Türkiye3
This City Needs Street Music: Practices, Experiences, and Meanings in the Busking Scene of Hong Kong3
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:2
Istikhbars and Improvisations2
Singing a New Technology of Car Riding: Jitney-Bus Songs, 1915-19172
Lesbian Feminist Music and Meaningful Community Work2
The Furious Women and Victim Men of Turkish Pop Music: A Lyrical Exploration of Turkish Pop Hits of the 2000s2
R. Serge Denisoff Award2
R. Serge Denisoff Award2
Listening, but Not Being Heard: Young Women, Popular Music, Streaming, and Radio2
The Law of Averages: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in UK Music Streaming Debates2
Listening to Bob Dylan2
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 Community2
Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi: Reppin’ the Flames1
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces , edited by Scott Burnham, Marna Seltzer, and Dorothea von Moltke, 1
Fifty Years of Popular Music and Society: Workin’ on a Groovy Thing1
Women in the Studio: Creativity, Control and Gender in Popular Music Sound Production1
Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music1
Musicians as Workers and the Gig Economy1
Who let the DAWs Out? The Digital in a New Generation of the Digital Audio Workstation1
Distillation of Sound: Dub and the Creation of Culture1
Black Fatherhood, Hip Hop, and Inner Life: Reading Rapsody’s “The Man” and Mama Sol and the N.U.T.S.’s “Manhood”1
“The Secret Sauce”: Popular Jazz Performances on TikTok1
“More Champion than the Champions”: Female Masculinity in Lālehzari Music and Filmfarsi1
One More Turn after the Algorithmic Turn? Spotify’s Colonization of the Online Audio Space1
Tlaxihuiqui1
Digital Man or Jocko Homo: Rush, Devo, and competing visions of the technofuture1
The Lo-Fi Lens: Interpretations of Memphis Rap Tape Rips in the Online Mediascape1
Audiencing in China: Foreign Rock Musicians’ Perceptions of Difference and Sameness1
Introspecting the History: Rhetorical Constructions in the Interconnectedness of Chinese Folk and Hip-Hop Music1
Ramsey Lewis (1935-2022)1
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 (1
“Filipino Seekers of Fortune”: Jazz as Labor in 1920s Colonial Asia1
Sad Girls on TikTok: Musical and Multimodal Participatory Practices as Affective Negotiations of Ordinary Feelings and Knowledges in Online Music Cultures1
Holographic ABBA: Examining Fan Responses to ABBA’s Virtual “Live” Concert1
ArethaAretha, by Aretha Franklin, Rhino Entertainment R2-643,463, 2020, 4 CDs, $36.951
The Return to Craft: Taylor Swift, Nostalgia, and Covid-191
Popular Music Ontology (Taylor’s Version): Re-Recordings, the Rock Ideology, and Taylor Swift1
Presenting the Studio on Record Covers: Changing the Understanding of Swedish Jazz Records1
“Town’s Dead”: Contemporary Irish Popular Music and Dublin City1
Copyright and the Ethics of Sampling: The Lesson of the Czech Music Scene1
The Benefits of Collaborative Popular Music Songwriting: A Spectrum of Artist-Songwriter Involvement0
Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below0
Raving upon Thames: An Untold Story of Sixties London Raving upon Thames: An Untold Story of Sixties London , by Andrew Humphreys, London, Paradise Road, 2022, 314 pp., 0
Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South0
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
Western Bias, Canonicity, and Cultural Globalization: Introduction to “Jazz Diasporas”0
Musicking Assemblages and the Material Contingency of Sound: Mostly Other People Do the Killing’s Re-enactment of Kind of Blue0
Jerry Rodnitzky, 1936-20200
“I’ll Also with My Poverty, Buy All Your Sadness”: Tataloo and the Tatality Fanbase in Iran0
Searching for “Australia’s Woodstock”: The Forgotten Australian Rock Festivals of 1970 – 19750
Métis In the Mainstream: The Ambivalent Blackness and Legacy of Henri Salvador0
Greg Shaw Award0
Other Ways of Knowing the Danish Music Industry: From Disorientation to Feminist Collective Capacity0
Out on the Floor: Exploring the London Lesbian Club Scene of the 1980s and 1990s0
Recording Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Musicians: An Interview with Fury Young of FREER Records0
“Redirect the Hate”: Plato, Powerviolence, and the Metaphysics of Anger0
Pop Music Diegesis and the 360º Video0
Music and the Performance of Aspiration: The Case of Os Monstros in Late Colonial Lourenço Marques, Mozambique0
Aesthetic Tensions in Metal Production: Genre Expectations, Technological Mediation, and Creative Freedom0
Local Digital: Staging Geographies and Sonic Identities Through Auto-Tune Effects and Streaming Sites in North Indian Popular Music0
Dutch Politics of Music-Washing at Eurovision: The Monstrous Hybrid of Commodified Musical Legacies of Slavery, Imperialist Utopianism, and White Nationalism0
Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures0
Born to Run : The Transmedia Evolution of the Bruce Springsteen Memoir from Book to Stage and Screen0
Being a Musician in Socialist Mozambique: From Invisibility to Unfeasibility (1974–1994)0
Moving Target: Mythopoeia and Meaning in a British Music Emblem0
Between Cultural Policies, Industry Structures, and the Household: A Feminist Perspective on Digitalization and Musical Careers in Hungary0
One Chord Is Fine, Two Chords Are Pushing It, Three Chords and You’re Into Jazz0
Correction0
Remembering Berlin: David Bowie’s “‘Heroes’” (1977)0
Crooner: Singing from the Heart from Sinatra to Nas0
Listen to the Boat Engines: The Intimate Voicing of Taiwanese Indigenous Cosmopolitanism in Far Ocean Fishing Songs0
“Big Map Idea”: Diasporic Currents in South African Music0
Mobile Safe Spaces and Preset Emotions: Making Music with Apps as a Digital Technology of the Self0
Singing the New Scot: Parody, Contrafacta, and Dainty Protest Songs in Cape Breton0
“Both Sides Now”: Folk-Rock Authorship, Interpretation, and the Cover Version0
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
Stylistic Contrasts and Social Implications in “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”0
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States0
Stage, Street, Garden, or Parlour: The Ubiquitous Popular Songs of Late Georgian England0
Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music0
Fangirling While Black: K-pop, Affect, and the Reproduction/Rejection of Blackness0
Kasahare: Demystifying Rap Lyricism and Artistry in Ghana’s Hiplife Music0
Western Popular Music, Ethnomusicology, and Curricular Reform: A History and a Critique0
R. Serge Denisoff Award0
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
Die Jim Crow0
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
The Beatles Reconceptualized as Jazz: A Musical Entry Point into Cultural, Racial, and Historical Considerations0
Reconfiguring Genre, Style, and Idiolect: Investigating Progressive Rock’s Meta-Genre and Affordances0
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
The Wild Tchoupitoulas0
Screaming, Crying, Writing Up: Literary Music Journalism Books as a Legitimization of Contemporary Fangirl Practices0
Stories and Data: Australian Musicians Navigating the Spotify for Artists Platform0
“Go Out and Bring Me Lazarus”:O Brother, Allegory, and a Work Song’s Circuitous Journey0
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
“Shade Never Made Anybody Less Gay”: Taylor Swift’s Performance of Allyship and the Neoliberalization of Activism0
Judith Durham (1943-2022)0
The Force of Environmental Lyrics in Pop Songs: The Case of Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach0
An Exploration of the East Indian and African Music Traditions in Trinidad and Tobago: The Case of Mungal Patasar and Pantar0
Correction0
The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me0
Rock, Soul, and Roll: Greatest Hits and More, 1957–1961Rock, Soul, and Roll: Greatest Hits and More, 1957–1961, Larry Williams, Jasmine JASCD 1091, 2021, CD, $13.990
The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy0
R. Serge Denisoff Award0
(Dis)locating Democratization: Music Technologies in Practice0
“Everyday Fidelity”: Analyzing Sound Quality in Ubiquitous Listening Practices0
Tree Indeed0
White Stripes, White Rock: The Uncontested Blues Appropriations of the White Stripes0
Bob Dylan in the Attic: The Artist as Historian0
R. Serge Denisoff Award0
Subverting the Restorative Nostalgia of Black Metal: Reading Swiss Band Zeal & Ardor Through an Afropessimistic Lens0
Safer Covachas ––Preserving Digital Music in Cassettes: Grassroots Archiving Practices of Independent Record Labels in Contemporary Argentina0
“More Where That Came From”: How the Voice of Randy Travis Helps to Normalize AI0
Sensing Vinyl: Ritual, Memory, Materiality0
Music-making Beyond the Pub: The Importance of Community Music and DIY Enterprise in Maintaining Regional Music Scenes (Gippsland Case Study)0
“I’d Have to Be Crazy if I Did it Strictly on a Financial Basis”: Australian Regional Music Venues, Burnout, and Precarious Music Ecologies0
Popular Music and LGBTQ+ Identities in the Age of Streaming: An Explorative Audience Study0
Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan0
Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze0
Music, Digitalization, and Democratic Elections: The Changing Soundtrack of Electoral Politics in the UK0
Disney’s “Jungle Sound”: Jazz and Wildness in Disney Animation0
Cherokee Missed: Indigenous Influence and Natural Metaphysics in the Music of Jimi Hendrix0
Re-Membering Music Worlds: Exhibiting the Rebel Women of Manchester’s Suffragette City0
Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022)0
The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up0
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution(ary): The Music and Politics of Tracy Chapman0
The (New) Awakening of Soviet Jazz Culture in the 1960s0
Rock Rock , The “5” Royales, Bear Family Records BCD 17522, 2021, CD, $12.000
Revisiting the South Korean Youth Culture and T’ongkit’a Music0
The Closing of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland0
The Birth of Porto’s Jazz Scene: Culture, Spaces, and Networks0
“I Felt Like a Normal Human Being”: Professional DJs’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Lockdowns0
Soundtracking Conspiracy Theory: Non-Fictional Worldmaking and audio-Epistemic Strategies in Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009/2015)0
The Labor Process of Relational Labor: The Case of the K-Pop Fan Platform “Bubble”0
Managed Hearts: Emotional Labor and Structural Change in the Work of Young Female Music Managers in Hungary0
Musicians’ Unions and Live Music: Historical and Contemporary Challenges in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States0
“I Am at Home, I Am French”—Notions of Be/Longing in Afro-French Rapper Black M’s Music0
Digitalization and the Musical Mediation of Anti-Democratic Ideologies in Alt-Right Forums0
What was Lo-Fi?0
Where’s the Money, Honey? A Compendium of Blues Songs Where’s the Money, Honey? A Compendium of Blues Songs , Various Artists, Jasmine Records JASMCD 3171, 2021, CD, $130
Patches of Survival in the Anthropocene: Melancholy and Ecstasy within Go_A’s 2021 Eurovision Song Contest Performance of “SHUM” (ШУМ)0
The Streaming Paradox: Untangling the Hybrid Gatekeeping Mechanisms of Music Streaming0
From Innocence to Experience, and Other Transitions in Selected Lyrics of John Prine0
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
What is “Heavy” in Metal? A Netnographic Analysis of Online Forums for Metal Musicians and Producers0
Datafication, Literacy, and Democratization in the Music Industry0
Make It Funky for Me: Black British Women’s Explorations of Britishness, Womanhood, and Artistry Through 2000s Music0
Music, Digitalization, and Democracy0
Critiquing the “What Is Jazz” Puzzle in a Diasporic Setting: “Jazz-Related” Performance and Patronage in Australia before “Jazz”0
Norteño Corporeality: Body, Gender, Sound, and Economy in Commercialized Norteño Music Videos0
Introduction: Gender and Popular Music Knowledge0
(Re)claiming the Public Sphere: Greek Cypriot Dialect Hip-Hop and the Right to Say It in One’s Own Language0
Showing Off as Selling Out: Online (Self-)Promotional Strategies of Grassroots Electronic Dance Musicians0
Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone0
Nail the Mix: Standardization in Mixing Metal Music?0
Groove Therapy0
Segue-me à Capela: Inclusion and Resilience Strategies in Traditional Portuguese Music0
Thirteen Bloodlines Planning a Genocide: COVID Conspiracies as a Form of White Ignorance in the Finnish Rap Song “Tuku Tuku”0
Performing Affects: Precarity, Liminality, Belonging, and the Strategies of a Migrant Bandleader within a South African Music Scene0
Rockin’ the Regime: Mormon Missionaries, American Popular Music, and the Fading of Spanish Fascism0
God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music0
Howard S. Becker, 1928–20230
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