Popular Music

Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, Visiting Professor at Edge Hill′s SOLSTICE CETL, and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA).Previously, Tara has held academic positions in both Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. An outstanding teacher, she won six teaching awards, including the Australian National Teaching Award for the Humanities in 1998, along with others in the areas of disability and cultural studies. In 2005, Tara won both the Murdoch University Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year and the Teaching Excellence Award. In 2009 and she won the University of Brighton′s Teaching Excellence Award, nominated by both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She was a finalist for the 2005 Australian of the Year and also the 2005 Telstra Businesswoman of the Year in the Community Service category. In 1999 and 2002, she was short-listed for the Western Australian Citizen of the Year.

An incredibly wide-ranging critical account of popular music. The book is an essential resource for all staff and students in the fieldProf John StoreyCentre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland One of the most thoughtful, inspirational and engaging popular music texts of recent years. It deserves to be well-thumbed by popular music students, academics and researchers alike. Insightful at every corner, the text covers a kaleidoscopic range of subjects - from country music to copyright, Madchester to Myspace - and delivers a wonderfully clear, authoritative and lively invitation to think and write about music. As pedagogically enriching as it is analytically sophisticated, the text not only describes current digital music cultures, but also suggests fruitful movements beyond current orthodoxies of popular music studies. A serious intervention that just so happens to be a clear and accessible textbookNick PriorSenior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Edinburgh

• Introduction: Walking on the Dance FloorApproachesListening to MusicVisualizing MusicDancing to MusicThinking about MusicWriting about MusicMusic SpacesSonic Architecture/SoundscapeCity Music and Urban SpacesRecording SpacesClubs and PubsSoundtracks and Filmic SpacesMusic Video and Televisual SpacesRadio, Podcasting and Listening SpacesMP3 and Downloading SpacesInstruments of/for StudyGuitar CulturesKeyboard CulturesDrumming and PercussionVoiceTurntablismiPodGenre and CommunityCountryFolkThe BluesRock and RollSoulReggae and SkaSalsaMetalPunk and IndieHip HopDiscoHouse and Post-House MusicsWorld MusicDebatesIntellectual PropertyCensorship and RegulationRace, Appropriation and CommodificationGirl Groups and FeminismBoy Bands and Men′s StudiesGay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgenderist MusicsDigitization, User-Generated Content and Social NetworkingMusic: Politics, Resistance and ProtestConclusion: Walking off the Dance FloorSonic SourcesVisual Sources