Robert Strachan – författare

This completely revised and updated 6th edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meanings of popular music in the post-digital age.Reflecting the breadth of scholarship within popular music studies and charting key elements of popular music culture in the post-digital age, this new edition has been expanded and comprehensively updated to offer an essential guide to the field. This new edition includes:• Examination of platformisation, music streaming, and AI’s evolving implications on music production and consumption.• Insights into contemporary musical texts and genres including EDM, drill, metal and reggaeton, with case studies on major artists including Adele, Chance the Rapper, Max Martin, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.• Discussion of artist branding, viral videos, ‘cancel culture’, digital production technologies and pop songwriting.• Brand new chapter on gender and sexuality, with focussed discussion of hip hop, hyperpop and work within the music industries.• Extended coverage of contemporary fandoms, with a spotlight on BTS, plus consideration of music’s role in social justice movements from Black Lives Matter to climate change.This book is written for undergraduate and graduate students studying popular music, cultural studies, media studies and sociology. It is ideal for instructors teaching courses on popular music culture, music industry studies or contemporary cultural analysis, as well as researchers seeking a comprehensive understanding of how popular music functions in today’s digital landscape.

This completely revised and updated 6th edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meanings of popular music in the post-digital age.Reflecting the breadth of scholarship within popular music studies and charting key elements of popular music culture in the post-digital age, this new edition has been expanded and comprehensively updated to offer an essential guide to the field. This new edition includes:• Examination of platformisation, music streaming, and AI’s evolving implications on music production and consumption.• Insights into contemporary musical texts and genres including EDM, drill, metal and reggaeton, with case studies on major artists including Adele, Chance the Rapper, Max Martin, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.• Discussion of artist branding, viral videos, ‘cancel culture’, digital production technologies and pop songwriting.• Brand new chapter on gender and sexuality, with focussed discussion of hip hop, hyperpop and work within the music industries.• Extended coverage of contemporary fandoms, with a spotlight on BTS, plus consideration of music’s role in social justice movements from Black Lives Matter to climate change.This book is written for undergraduate and graduate students studying popular music, cultural studies, media studies and sociology. It is ideal for instructors teaching courses on popular music culture, music industry studies or contemporary cultural analysis, as well as researchers seeking a comprehensive understanding of how popular music functions in today’s digital landscape.

Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the ARSC Awards for Excellence 2018In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think about, make and use popular music. From the production of multimillion selling pop records to the ubiquitous remix that has become a marker of Web 2.0, the emergence of new music production technologies have had a transformative effect upon 21st Century digital culture. Sonic Technologies examines these issues with a specific focus upon the impact of digitization upon creativity; that is, what musicians, cultural producers and prosumers do. For many, music production has moved out of the professional recording studio and into the home. Using a broad range of examples ranging from experimental electronic music to more mainstream genres, the book examines how contemporary creative practice is shaped by the visual and sonic look and feel of recording technologies such as Digital Audio Workstations.