Popular Music and Society

by Longhurst, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780745631639
• ISBN10: 0745631630
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-07
• Publisher: Polity Pr

Summary

This new edition of Popular Music and Society, fully revised and updated, continues to pioneer an approach to the study of popular music that is informed by wider debates in sociology and media and cultural studies. Astute and accessible, it continues to set the agenda for research and teaching in this area.The textbook begins by examining the ways in which popular music is produced, before moving on to explore its structure as text and the ways in which audiences understand and use music. Packed with examples and data on the contemporary production and consumption of popular music, the book also includes overviews and critiques of theoretical approaches to this exciting area of study and outlines the most important empirical studies which have shaped the discipline.Topics covered include:- The contemporary organisation of the music industry; - The effects of technological change on production; - The history and politics of popular music; - Gender, sexuality and ethnicity; - Subcultures; - Fans and music celebrities.For this new edition, two whole new chapters have been added: on performance and the body, and on the very latest ways of thinking about audiences and the spaces and places of music consumption.This second edition of Popular Music and Society will continue to be required reading for students of the sociology of culture, media and communication studies, and popular culture.

Author Biography

Brian Longhurst is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vi
List of Tables	p. viii
List of Boxes	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Preface	p. xiv
Introduction: Constraints and Creativity - Arguments and Framework	p. 1
Production
The Pop Music Industry	p. 27
The Social Production of Music	p. 51
Text
History, Politics and Sexuality	p. 87
'Black Music': Genres and Social Constructions	p. 118
Texts and Meaning	p. 150
Performance, Dance, Distinction and the Body	p. 180
Audience
Effects, Audiences and Subcultures	p. 199
Fans, Production and Consumption	p. 226
Beyond Subcultures and Fans: New Audiences, Scenes and Everyday Life	p. 246
Conclusion	p. 264
Further Reading	p. 267
References	p. 271
Index	p. 289
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