Ian Biddle is Senior Lecturer and Head of Postgraduate Studies in Music at Newcastle University, UK. He is a cultural theorist and musicologist, working on a range of topics in music and sound-related areas. His work ranges from the cultural history of music and masculinity, music in the Holocaust, theorising music's intervention in communities and subjectivities, sound, soundscapes and urban experience, and the politics of noise. He has interests in memory studies, sound studies, Italian workerist and autonomist theory, psychoanalysis and theoretical approaches to 'affective' states. He is co-founder and co-ordinating editor (with Richard Middleton) of the journal Radical Musicology.

Shortlisted for the 2008 AMS Ruth A. Solie Award (for an outstanding collection of musicological essays). ’...definitively a worthy contribution to the library of scholars interested in a more differentiated view of current processes.’ Popular Music ’... the high calibre of the individual chapters, the inclusion of commentaries by leading researchers, and the editors' intellectually robust conceptualization all result in a polished and engaging text. It will be of interest to scholars of music and other disciplines where location, politics and nationhood are key issues, and it makes a fine contribution to the evolution of the discourse of music and globalization.’ Lied und populäre Kultur 'This book makes a stimulating contribution to the literature on popular music and national identity, and it has much to offer ethnomusicologists interested in globalisation theory and the politics of popular music.' Ethnomusicology Forum

• General Editor’s Preface; Introduction National Popular Musics, Ian Biddle, Vanessa Knights; Part I Positions; Chapter 1 National Identity and Music in Transition, John O’Flynn; Chapter 2 Where Does World Music Come From? Globalization, Afropop and the Question of Cultural Identity, David Murphy; Part II Locations; Chapter 3 Voicing Risk, Parvati Nair; Chapter 4 Banda, a New Sound from the Barrios of Los Angeles, Helena Simonett; Chapter 5 Rapping at the Margins, Brian George; Chapter 6 The Quest for National Unity in Uyghur Popular Song, Joanne N. Smith; Chapter 7 The Singer and the Mask, Robin Warner, Regina Nascimento; Chapter 8 Popular Music, Tradition and Serbian Nationalism, Robert Hudson; Chapter 9 Those Norwegians, Stan Hawkins; Afterword, Richard Middleton;

Ian Biddle is Senior Lecturer and Head of Postgraduate Studies in Music at Newcastle University, UK. He is a cultural theorist and musicologist, working on a range of topics in music and sound-related areas. His work ranges from the cultural history of music and masculinity, music in the Holocaust, theorising music's intervention in communities and subjectivities, sound, soundscapes and urban experience, and the politics of noise. He has interests in memory studies, sound studies, Italian workerist and autonomist theory, psychoanalysis and theoretical approaches to 'affective' states. He is co-founder and co-ordinating editor (with Richard Middleton) of the journal Radical Musicology.

Shortlisted for the 2008 AMS Ruth A. Solie Award (for an outstanding collection of musicological essays). ’...definitively a worthy contribution to the library of scholars interested in a more differentiated view of current processes.’ Popular Music ’... the high calibre of the individual chapters, the inclusion of commentaries by leading researchers, and the editors' intellectually robust conceptualization all result in a polished and engaging text. It will be of interest to scholars of music and other disciplines where location, politics and nationhood are key issues, and it makes a fine contribution to the evolution of the discourse of music and globalization.’ Lied und populäre Kultur 'This book makes a stimulating contribution to the literature on popular music and national identity, and it has much to offer ethnomusicologists interested in globalisation theory and the politics of popular music.' Ethnomusicology Forum

• General Editor’s Preface; Introduction National Popular Musics, Ian Biddle, Vanessa Knights; Part I Positions; Chapter 1 National Identity and Music in Transition, John O’Flynn; Chapter 2 Where Does World Music Come From? Globalization, Afropop and the Question of Cultural Identity, David Murphy; Part II Locations; Chapter 3 Voicing Risk, Parvati Nair; Chapter 4 Banda, a New Sound from the Barrios of Los Angeles, Helena Simonett; Chapter 5 Rapping at the Margins, Brian George; Chapter 6 The Quest for National Unity in Uyghur Popular Song, Joanne N. Smith; Chapter 7 The Singer and the Mask, Robin Warner, Regina Nascimento; Chapter 8 Popular Music, Tradition and Serbian Nationalism, Robert Hudson; Chapter 9 Those Norwegians, Stan Hawkins; Afterword, Richard Middleton;

Ian Biddle is Senior Lecturer and Head of Postgraduate Studies in Music at Newcastle University, UK. He is a cultural theorist and musicologist, working on a range of topics in music and sound-related areas. His work ranges from the cultural history of music and masculinity, music in the Holocaust, theorising music's intervention in communities and subjectivities, sound, soundscapes and urban experience, and the politics of noise. He has interests in memory studies, sound studies, Italian workerist and autonomist theory, psychoanalysis and theoretical approaches to 'affective' states. He is co-founder and co-ordinating editor (with Richard Middleton) of the journal Radical Musicology.

Shortlisted for the 2008 AMS Ruth A. Solie Award (for an outstanding collection of musicological essays). ’...definitively a worthy contribution to the library of scholars interested in a more differentiated view of current processes.’ Popular Music ’... the high calibre of the individual chapters, the inclusion of commentaries by leading researchers, and the editors' intellectually robust conceptualization all result in a polished and engaging text. It will be of interest to scholars of music and other disciplines where location, politics and nationhood are key issues, and it makes a fine contribution to the evolution of the discourse of music and globalization.’ Lied und populäre Kultur 'This book makes a stimulating contribution to the literature on popular music and national identity, and it has much to offer ethnomusicologists interested in globalisation theory and the politics of popular music.' Ethnomusicology Forum

• General Editor’s Preface; Introduction National Popular Musics, Ian Biddle, Vanessa Knights; Part I Positions; Chapter 1 National Identity and Music in Transition, John O’Flynn; Chapter 2 Where Does World Music Come From? Globalization, Afropop and the Question of Cultural Identity, David Murphy; Part II Locations; Chapter 3 Voicing Risk, Parvati Nair; Chapter 4 Banda, a New Sound from the Barrios of Los Angeles, Helena Simonett; Chapter 5 Rapping at the Margins, Brian George; Chapter 6 The Quest for National Unity in Uyghur Popular Song, Joanne N. Smith; Chapter 7 The Singer and the Mask, Robin Warner, Regina Nascimento; Chapter 8 Popular Music, Tradition and Serbian Nationalism, Robert Hudson; Chapter 9 Those Norwegians, Stan Hawkins; Afterword, Richard Middleton;