Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University and previously held academic positions in the UK and Canada. His areas of research specialism include youth culture, popular music scenes, history and heritage, local music industries, DIY culture and practice and qualitative research methods. He has written and edited numerous books including Popular Music and Youth Culture, Music, Style and Aging, British Progressive Pop 1970 - 1980 and Music Scenes (co-edited with Richard A. Peterson). He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and a former Chair of the UK and Ireland IASPM branch. In 1999 he co-founded the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group. He is also a member of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and former Editor in Chief of the Journal of Sociology. He is a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology, an Adjunct of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Porto, an International Research Fellow of the Finnish Youth Research Network, a founding member of the Consortium for Youth, Generations and Culture and a founding member of the Regional Music Research Group. He is also co-founder of KISMIF, a biennial conference focusing on DIY cultures and practice. Steve Waksman is Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College, Massachusetts, USA. His works include the books Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (Harvard University Press, 1999), and This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (University of California Press, 2009), the latter of which was awarded the 2010 Woody Guthrie Award for best scholarly book on popular music by the US chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. With Reebee Garofalo he co-authored the sixth edition of Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A. (Pearson, 2013). His essays have appeared in Guitar Cultures, The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop, and Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World. Currently he is researching a book on the cultural history of live music and performance in the US, tentatively titled Live Music in America: A History, 1850-2000.
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Introduction - Andy Bennett and Steve Waksman SECTION 1: Theory and Method - Introduction by Andy Bennett The Many Worlds of Popular Music: Ethnomusicological - Kevin Dawe Notes on Sociological Theory and Popular Music Studies - Motti Regev Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards: Mixing Pop, Politics - Gilbert B. Rodman (Re)Generations of Popular Musicology - Serge Lacasse Archival Research and the Expansion of Popular Music - Christine Feldman-Barratt SECTION 2: The Business of Popular Music - Introduction by Steve Waksman Power, Production and the Pop Process - Reebee Garofalo Intermediaries and Intermediation - Devon Powers Popular Musical Labor in North America - Matt Stahl Music in Advertising in the U.S.: History and Issues - Timothy D. Taylor SECTION 3: Popular Music History - Introduction by Steve Waksman Grinding out Hits at the Song Factory - Keir Keightley Popular Music Genres: Aesthetics, Commerce and Identity - David Brackett Live Music History - Matt Brennan SECTION 4: The Global and the Local - Introduction by Andy Bennett Observations on African, African-American, Middle Eastern - Tony Mitchell Electronic Dance Music Cultures, Ritualization and the Case - Graham St. John "Everything Louder than Everyone Else': The Origins and Persistence of Heavy Metal and Its Global Cultural Impact - Andy Brown Punk Rock Globalization - Ross Haenfler SECTION 5: The Star System - Introduction by Steve Waksman Rock Stars as Icons - David Shumway Everybody's in Show Biz: Performing Star Identity in Popular Music - Philip Auslander Midnight Ramblers and Material Girls: Gender and Stardom in Rock and Pop - Jacqueline Warwick Dark Cosmos: Making Race, Shaping Stardom - C. Riley Snorton SECTION 6: Body and Identity - Introduction by Andy Bennett Blurred lines, gender and Popular Music - Sheila Whiteley Popular Music, Race and Identity - Jon Stratton Dancing the Popular: The Expressive Interface of Bodies, Sound and Motion - Sherril Dodds Shaping the Past of Popular music: Memory, Forgetting and Documenting - Catherine Strong SECTION 7: Media - Introduction by Andy Bennett In Print and On Screen: The Changing Character of Popular Music Journalism - Simon Warner Sight and Sound in Concert? The Interrelationship Between Music and Television - Tim Wall and Paul Long Viewing with Your Ears, Listening With Your Eyes: Synching Popular Music and Cinema - Scott Henderson Beyond Napster: Popular Music and the 'Normal' Internet - Nick Prior SECTION 8: Technology - Introduction by Steve Waksman Phonography and the 'Recording' in Popular Music - Patrick Feaster Ghosts of Electricity: Amplification - Peter Doyle Ubiquitous Musics: Technology, Listening, and Subjectivity - Anahid Kassabian SECTION 9: Digital Economies - Introduction by Steve Waksman Modes of Production: The Value of Modal Analysis for Popular Music Studies - Tim Anderson Music, Copies and Essences - Joanna Demers Authorship, Ownership, and Musical Appropriation - Kembrew McLeod Music Cartels and the Dematerialization of Power - Aram Sinnreich
The Sage Handbook of Popular Music is a comprehensive, smartly-conceived volume that can take its place as the new standard textbook in popular music. The editors have shown great care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship. International in its focus and pleasantly wide-ranging across historical periods, the Handbook is accessible to students but full of material of interest to those teaching and researching in the field. -- Will Straw Celebrating the maturation of popular music studies and recognizing the immense changes that have recently taken place in the conditions of popular music production, the Sage Handbook of Popular Music features contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field. Every chapter is well defined and to the point, with bibliographies that capture the history of the field. Authoritative, expertly organized and absolutely up-to-date, this collection will instantly become the backbone of many courses across the Anglophone world and is certain to be cited for years to come. -- Barry Shank The editors have enlisted a diverse cadre of contributors in terms of gender, profession, or stage in their academic careers, making for a refreshing reading experience when approaching the work straight through. Highly recommended. -- V.J. Novara, University of Maryland