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.
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Introduction: Walking on the Dance Floor Approaches Listening to Music Visualizing Music Dancing to Music Thinking about Music Writing about Music Music Spaces Sonic Architecture/Soundscape City Music and Urban Spaces Recording Spaces Clubs and Pubs Soundtracks and Filmic Spaces Music Video and Televisual Spaces Radio, Podcasting and Listening Spaces MP3 and Downloading Spaces Instruments of/for Study Guitar Cultures Keyboard Cultures Drumming and Percussion Voice Turntablism iPod Genre and Community Country Folk The Blues Rock and Roll Soul Reggae and Ska Salsa Metal Punk and Indie Hip Hop Disco House and Post-House Musics World Music Debates Intellectual Property Censorship and Regulation Race, Appropriation and Commodification Girl Groups and Feminism Boy Bands and Men's Studies Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgenderist Musics Digitization, User-Generated Content and Social Networking Music: Politics, Resistance and Protest Conclusion: Walking off the Dance Floor Sonic Sources Visual Sources
An incredibly wide-ranging critical account of popular music. The book is an essential resource for all staff and students in the field Prof John Storey Centre 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 textbook Nick Prior Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Edinburgh