Popular Music Books

New and Published Books

1. Readings in Law and Popular Culture

   Edited by Steven Greenfield, Guy Osborn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture

   Readings in Law and Popular Culture is the first book to bring together high quality research, with an emphasis on context, from key researchers working at the cutting-edge of both law and cultural disciplines. Fascinating and varied, the volume crosses many boundaries, dealing with areas as...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Justice as Improvisation

   The Law of the Extempore

   By Sara Ramshaw

   Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses around improvisation often imprison it in a quasi-ethical relationship with the authentic, singular ‘other’. The same can be...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Melodies of the Mind

   Connections between psychoanalysis and music

   By Julie Jaffee Nagel

   What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the oral road to the unconscious, Melodies of the Mind invites the reader to take a journey on an aural...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. A History of Popular Culture

   More of Everything, Faster and Brighter, 2nd Edition

   By Raymond F. Betts, Lyz Bly

   This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War. A History of Popular Culture explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
5. Arab Cultural Studies

   History, Politics and the Popular

   Edited by Anastasia Valassopoulos

   This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. Popular culture in the form of cinema, popular music, literature, visual media and cyber-cultures, both local and imported, enjoy a central role in Arab cultural life, and...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
6. Understanding Popular Music Culture

   4th Edition

   By Roy Shuker

   This extensively revised new edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music and the difficulties and debates that surround the analysis of popular culture and popular...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Club Cultures

   Boundaries, Identities and Otherness

   By Silvia Rief

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

   By Eduardo de la Fuente

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism,...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture

   By Stella Lau

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Sound Studies Reader

    Edited by Jonathan Sterne

    The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as ‘sound studies’ along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sciences. The Sound Studies Reader touches on key themes like noise and silence; architecture,...

    Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge