Popular Music and Society

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Saturation Season: Inclusivity, Queerness, and Aesthetics in the New Media Practices of Brockhampton28
The Institutionalization of Inequality: Female Vocalists’ Struggles in the Chinese Jazz Scene22
Tony Williams—The Signature Voice of The Platters: Volume One, 1955–196115
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
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
“Just Beyond Our Reach”: Reggae, Decolonization, and Ambiguity in Aotearoa New Zealand11
Ton Steine Scherben: A Unique Hybrid of Psychedelic Rock and Battle Song8
Drowning Out Escapism: Performances of Transformative Confinement in the Work of Beyoncé and Harry Styles5
Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World , by David A. Less, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, E5
Eluding the State, Reimagining Malaysia: Controversy and Multicultural Heteroglossia in Namewee’s Music Videos4
Rockin’ the Free World! How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World4
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An “Integrated Effort,”4
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture3
Independent Canadian Music in the Streaming Age: The Sound from above (Critical Political Economy) and below (Ethnography of Musicians)3
Listening to Bob Dylan2
This City Needs Street Music: Practices, Experiences, and Meanings in the Busking Scene of Hong Kong2
Istikhbars and Improvisations2
Listening, but Not Being Heard: Young Women, Popular Music, Streaming, and Radio2
Fikret Kızılok’s Songs as an Object of Memory and Protest in Türkiye2
“A Line from a Song that Punches You in the Stomach” –Music and the Negotiations of Cultural Memory in Facebook2
R. Serge Denisoff Award2
American Punk and the Rhetoric of “Political Correctness”2
The Furious Women and Victim Men of Turkish Pop Music: A Lyrical Exploration of Turkish Pop Hits of the 2000s2
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
Distillation of Sound: Dub and the Creation of Culture1
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 Community1
Copyright and the Ethics of Sampling: The Lesson of the Czech Music Scene1
“Town’s Dead”: Contemporary Irish Popular Music and Dublin City1
“The Secret Sauce”: Popular Jazz Performances on TikTok1
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
Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music1
Ramsey Lewis (1935-2022)1
Black Fatherhood, Hip Hop, and Inner Life: Reading Rapsody’s “The Man” and Mama Sol and the N.U.T.S.’s “Manhood”1
Lesbian Feminist Music and Meaningful Community Work1
Presenting the Studio on Record Covers: Changing the Understanding of Swedish Jazz Records1
Musicians as Workers and the Gig Economy1
“Filipino Seekers of Fortune”: Jazz as Labor in 1920s Colonial Asia1
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
Singing a New Technology of Car Riding: Jitney-Bus Songs, 1915-19171
R. Serge Denisoff Award1
Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi: Reppin’ the Flames1
Audiencing in China: Foreign Rock Musicians’ Perceptions of Difference and Sameness1
Who let the DAWs Out? The Digital in a New Generation of the Digital Audio Workstation1
The Lo-Fi Lens: Interpretations of Memphis Rap Tape Rips in the Online Mediascape1
Digital Man or Jocko Homo: Rush, Devo, and competing visions of the technofuture1
The Birth of Porto’s Jazz Scene: Culture, Spaces, and Networks0
Die Jim Crow0
“More Champion than the Champions”: Female Masculinity in Lālehzari Music and Filmfarsi0
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
Music-making Beyond the Pub: The Importance of Community Music and DIY Enterprise in Maintaining Regional Music Scenes (Gippsland Case Study)0
Recording Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Musicians: An Interview with Fury Young of FREER Records0
“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
Rock Rock , The “5” Royales, Bear Family Records BCD 17522, 2021, CD, $12.000
What was Lo-Fi?0
Musicians’ Unions and Live Music: Historical and Contemporary Challenges in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States0
Other Ways of Knowing the Danish Music Industry: From Disorientation to Feminist Collective Capacity0
White Stripes, White Rock: The Uncontested Blues Appropriations of the White Stripes0
Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures0
The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy0
Sensing Vinyl: Ritual, Memory, Materiality0
Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone0
Make It Funky for Me: Black British Women’s Explorations of Britishness, Womanhood, and Artistry Through 2000s Music0
Critiquing the “What Is Jazz” Puzzle in a Diasporic Setting: “Jazz-Related” Performance and Patronage in Australia before “Jazz”0
Revisiting the South Korean Youth Culture and T’ongkit’a Music0
Thirteen Bloodlines Planning a Genocide: COVID Conspiracies as a Form of White Ignorance in the Finnish Rap Song “Tuku Tuku”0
The Closing of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland0
Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan0
Howard S. Becker, 1928–20230
Go West, Young Man! Definitive Western Themes, Classics, & Rarities Go West, Young Man! Definitive Western Themes, Classics, & Rarities , by Various Artists, Oxf0
Between Cultural Policies, Industry Structures, and the Household: A Feminist Perspective on Digitalization and Musical Careers in Hungary0
Western Popular Music, Ethnomusicology, and Curricular Reform: A History and a Critique0
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
Nail the Mix: Standardization in Mixing Metal Music?0
An Exploration of the East Indian and African Music Traditions in Trinidad and Tobago: The Case of Mungal Patasar and Pantar0
The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me0
“More Where That Came From”: How the Voice of Randy Travis Helps to Normalize AI0
Cherokee Missed: Indigenous Influence and Natural Metaphysics in the Music of Jimi Hendrix0
“I Am at Home, I Am French”—Notions of Be/Longing in Afro-French Rapper Black M’s Music0
Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South0
“I’ll Also with My Poverty, Buy All Your Sadness”: Tataloo and the Tatality Fanbase in Iran0
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution(ary): The Music and Politics of Tracy Chapman0
Datafication, Literacy, and Democratization in the Music Industry0
Dutch Politics of Music-Washing at Eurovision: The Monstrous Hybrid of Commodified Musical Legacies of Slavery, Imperialist Utopianism, and White Nationalism0
One More Turn after the Algorithmic Turn? Spotify’s Colonization of the Online Audio Space0
Mobile Safe Spaces and Preset Emotions: Making Music with Apps as a Digital Technology of the Self0
“Everyday Fidelity”: Analyzing Sound Quality in Ubiquitous Listening Practices0
Listen to the Boat Engines: The Intimate Voicing of Taiwanese Indigenous Cosmopolitanism in Far Ocean Fishing Songs0
What is “Heavy” in Metal? A Netnographic Analysis of Online Forums for Metal Musicians and Producers0
Women in the Studio: Creativity, Control and Gender in Popular Music Sound Production0
Live in Boston 1982: The Complete Concert Live in Boston 1982: The Complete Concert , George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Craft Records CR 00340, 2020, 2 CDs, $22.00 0
R. Serge Denisoff Award0
Fifty Years of Popular Music and Society: Workin’ on a Groovy Thing0
Tree Indeed0
The Labor Process of Relational Labor: The Case of the K-Pop Fan Platform “Bubble”0
Reconfiguring Genre, Style, and Idiolect: Investigating Progressive Rock’s Meta-Genre and Affordances0
Cornell ’77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall0
“Redirect the Hate”: Plato, Powerviolence, and the Metaphysics of Anger0
Out on the Floor: Exploring the London Lesbian Club Scene of the 1980s and 1990s0
Greg Shaw Award0
Stage, Street, Garden, or Parlour: The Ubiquitous Popular Songs of Late Georgian England0
The Force of Environmental Lyrics in Pop Songs: The Case of Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach0
“Big Map Idea”: Diasporic Currents in South African Music0
The Streaming Paradox: Untangling the Hybrid Gatekeeping Mechanisms of Music Streaming0
More Than Just Sixteen Candles0
Correction0
Disney’s “Jungle Sound”: Jazz and Wildness in Disney Animation0
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
“Both Sides Now”: Folk-Rock Authorship, Interpretation, and the Cover Version0
Music, Digitalization, and Democracy0
Groove Therapy0
Music, Digitalization, and Democratic Elections: The Changing Soundtrack of Electoral Politics in the UK0
God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music0
Rockin’ the Regime: Mormon Missionaries, American Popular Music, and the Fading of Spanish Fascism0
Re-Membering Music Worlds: Exhibiting the Rebel Women of Manchester’s Suffragette City0
Searching for “Australia’s Woodstock”: The Forgotten Australian Rock Festivals of 1970 – 19750
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
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
Performing Affects: Precarity, Liminality, Belonging, and the Strategies of a Migrant Bandleader within a South African Music Scene0
Norteño Corporeality: Body, Gender, Sound, and Economy in Commercialized Norteño Music Videos0
Being a Musician in Socialist Mozambique: From Invisibility to Unfeasibility (1974–1994)0
Musicking Assemblages and the Material Contingency of Sound: Mostly Other People Do the Killing’s Re-enactment of Kind of Blue0
K-Pop and the Creative Participatory Engagement of Thai Fans: When Cultural Hybridity Becomes Cultural Authenticity0
Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below0
Digitalization and the Musical Mediation of Anti-Democratic Ideologies in Alt-Right Forums0
Patches of Survival in the Anthropocene: Melancholy and Ecstasy within Go_A’s 2021 Eurovision Song Contest Performance of “SHUM” (ШУМ)0
The Return to Craft: Taylor Swift, Nostalgia, and Covid-190
“Shade Never Made Anybody Less Gay”: Taylor Swift’s Performance of Allyship and the Neoliberalization of Activism0
R. Serge Denisoff Award0
Music and the Performance of Aspiration: The Case of Os Monstros in Late Colonial Lourenço Marques, Mozambique0
Pop Music Diegesis and the 360º Video0
Tlaxihuiqui0
Born to Run : The Transmedia Evolution of the Bruce Springsteen Memoir from Book to Stage and Screen0
Stories and Data: Australian Musicians Navigating the Spotify for Artists Platform0
Métis In the Mainstream: The Ambivalent Blackness and Legacy of Henri Salvador0
Managed Hearts: Emotional Labor and Structural Change in the Work of Young Female Music Managers in Hungary0
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
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
Sad Girls on TikTok: Musical and Multimodal Participatory Practices as Affective Negotiations of Ordinary Feelings and Knowledges in Online Music Cultures0
Local Digital: Staging Geographies and Sonic Identities Through Auto-Tune Effects and Streaming Sites in North Indian Popular Music0
Stylistic Contrasts and Social Implications in “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”0
Jerry Rodnitzky, 1936-20200
Judith Durham (1943-2022)0
Showing Off as Selling Out: Online (Self-)Promotional Strategies of Grassroots Electronic Dance Musicians0
“I Felt Like a Normal Human Being”: Professional DJs’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Lockdowns0
“That’s the Kind of Music You Hear on the Subway without Headphones!”: Musical Evaluation Practices of Adolescents in Vienna0
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
(Re)claiming the Public Sphere: Greek Cypriot Dialect Hip-Hop and the Right to Say It in One’s Own Language0
The Wild Tchoupitoulas0
Crooner: Singing from the Heart from Sinatra to Nas0
(Dis)locating Democratization: Music Technologies in Practice0
Subverting the Restorative Nostalgia of Black Metal: Reading Swiss Band Zeal & Ardor Through an Afropessimistic Lens0
Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music0
“I’d Have to Be Crazy if I Did it Strictly on a Financial Basis”: Australian Regional Music Venues, Burnout, and Precarious Music Ecologies0
Bob Dylan in the Attic: The Artist as Historian0
Segue-me à Capela: Inclusion and Resilience Strategies in Traditional Portuguese Music0
Post Dictatorships, Cosmopolitanism, Punk, and Post-punk in Portugal and Spain from 1974 to 19840
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States0
Correction0
The Benefits of Collaborative Popular Music Songwriting: A Spectrum of Artist-Songwriter Involvement0
Kasahare: Demystifying Rap Lyricism and Artistry in Ghana’s Hiplife Music0
Introduction: Gender and Popular Music Knowledge0
The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up0
The (New) Awakening of Soviet Jazz Culture in the 1960s0
Popular Music and LGBTQ+ Identities in the Age of Streaming: An Explorative Audience Study0
Destination Lonely Street: 32 Tearjerkers for My Shadow, My Echo, and Me Destination Lonely Street: 32 Tearjerkers for My Shadow, My Echo, and Me , Various Artists, Bear0
Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze0
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
Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022)0
From Innocence to Experience, and Other Transitions in Selected Lyrics of John Prine0
Fangirling While Black: K-pop, Affect, and the Reproduction/Rejection of Blackness0
Moving Target: Mythopoeia and Meaning in a British Music Emblem0
Stages, Platforms, Streams: The Economies and Industries of Live Music after Digitalization0
ArethaAretha, by Aretha Franklin, Rhino Entertainment R2-643,463, 2020, 4 CDs, $36.950
Western Bias, Canonicity, and Cultural Globalization: Introduction to “Jazz Diasporas”0
Rockin’ Movie Soundtracks0
Singing the New Scot: Parody, Contrafacta, and Dainty Protest Songs in Cape Breton0
Screaming, Crying, Writing Up: Literary Music Journalism Books as a Legitimization of Contemporary Fangirl Practices0
Holographic ABBA: Examining Fan Responses to ABBA’s Virtual “Live” Concert0
Remembering Berlin: David Bowie’s “‘Heroes’” (1977)0
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