Popular Music Books

New and Published Books

1. Popular Music Culture: The Key Concepts

   3rd Edition

   By Roy Shuker

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Now in an updated 3rd edition this popular A-Z student handbook provides a comprehensive survey of key ideas and concepts in popular music culture. With new and expanded entries on genres and sub-genres the text comprehensively examines the social and cultural aspects of popular music, taking into...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
2. The Cultural Study of Music

   A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton

   What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
3. Music in the Western

   Notes From the Frontier

   By Kathryn Kalinak

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scores: their history, their generic conventions, their operation as part of a narrative system, their functioning within individual filmic texts and their...

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
4. Hip-Hop Culture in College Students’ Lives

   Elements, Embodiment, and Higher Edutainment

   By Emery Petchauer

   College campuses have become rich sites of hip-hop culture and knowledge production. Despite the attention that campus personnel and researchers have paid to student life, the field of higher education has often misunderstood the ways that hip-hop culture exists in college students’ lives. Based...

   Published October 2nd 2011 by Routledge
5. That's the Joint!

   The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Murray Forman, Mark Anthony Neal

   This newly expanded and revised second edition of That's the Joint! brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume. Presented thematically, the selections address the history of hip-hop, identity politics of the "hip-hop nation," debates of "street...

   Published August 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

   By Graham St. John

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

   This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets

   Cinemajazzamatazz

   By Morris Holbrook

   Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

   Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets focuses on macromarketing-related aspects of film music in general and on the cinemusical role of ambi-diegetic jazz in particular. The book examines other work on music in motion pictures which has dealt primarily with the traditional distinction between...

   Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Music Industry Handbook

   By Paul Rutter

   Series: Media Practice

   The Music Industry Handbook provides a clear introduction to how the music industry works, unpacking the complex structures within the industry and mapping it as it exists today. Paul Rutter introduces readers to key industry sectors in an easy-to-digest format, then goes on to explore the...

   Published May 19th 2011 by Routledge
9. Women, Music, Culture

   An Introduction

   By Julie C. Dunbar

   Women, Music, Culture is an undergraduate textbook on the history and contribution of women in a variety of musical genres and professions. Clear writing, compelling narrative, and more than fifty guided listening examples bring the world of women in music to life. It includes a wide array of...

   Published December 19th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Music Business and Recording Industry

    3rd Edition

    By Geoffrey Hull, Geoffrey Hull, Thomas Hutchison, Richard Strasser

    The Music Business and Recording Industry is a comprehensive textbook focused on the three income streams in the music industry: music publishing, live entertainment, and recordings. The book provides a sound foundation for understanding key issues, while presenting the latest research in the...

    Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge