Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University, West London. He is a prolific and influential author in the field of Celebrity, Leisure Studies and Popular Culture. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora prize for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure and Tourism Studies. Besides lecturing in the UK he has given lectures on leisure in Australia, Canada, the USA and the Netherlands. In 2009 he was Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He also writes on celebrity culture, neat capitalism and myths and realities of national identity. His current research is on popular music and popular culture and the meaning of the celetoid in Reality TV.
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VOLUME 1: HISTORY AND THEORETICAL TRADITIONS Defining the Popular Popular - Raymond Williams Introduction from The Troubadours - Robert Briffault The Troubadour Tradition in Italy and England - Robert Briffault On Popular Music - T. Adorno Authorship - Will Straw Towards an Aesthetics of Popular Music - S. Frith Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music - Richard Peterson The Music Industry and the 'Cultural Imperialism' Thesis - Dave Laing World Beat and the Cultural Imperialism Debate - A. Goodwin and J. Gore Disciplinary Approaches Musicology Analyzing Popular Music: Theory, Method and Practice - Philip Tagg Popular Music Analysis and Musicology: Bridging the Gap - Richard Middleton Sociology Sociological Approaches to the Pop Music Phenomenon - Paul Hirsch Towards a Cultural Sociology of Popular Music - Andy Bennett Culture, Media and Communication Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Communities and Scenes in Popular Music - Will Straw Madonna: Mother of Mirrors - John Castles Political Science The Politics of Popular Music - Michael Birch The Politics of Youth Culture: Some Observations on Rock and Roll in America - Lawrence Grossberg Psychology From the Functions of Music To Music Preferences - Thomas Schaefer and Peter Sedimier Selective Hearing: Gender Bias in the Music Preferences of Young Adults - Brett Millar Philosophy Valuing and Evaluating Popular Music - Theodore Gracyzk A Critique of Folk, Popular and 'Art' Music - Frank Howes Cultural Geography Recorded Music and Practices of Remembering - Ben Anderson The Anomalies of being Faye (Wong): Gender Politics in Chinese Popular Music - Anthony Fung and Michael Curtin VOLUME 2: TECHNOLOGY AND COPYRIGHT Formations of Technology Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music - Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld Art versus Technology: The Strange Case of Popular Music - Simon Frith The Sound of Music: Technological Rationalization and the Production of Popular Music - Paul Theberge The Walkman Effect - Shuhei Hosokowa Long Play: Adult-Orientated Popular Music and the Temporal Logics of the Post-War Sound Recording Industry in the USA - Keir Keighthley Sample and Hold - A. Goodwin Building International Empires of Sound: Concentrations of Power and Property in the 'Global' Music Market - Jack Bishop Flexibility, Post-Fordism and the Music Industries - David Hesmondhalgh Globalization of Mass Media Ownership: Implications and Effects - Paul Hirsch Copyright and Illegal Downloading Copyright and the Music Business - Simon Frith The Effects of Piracy upon the Music Industry: A Case of Bootlegging - Lee Marshall New Digital Technologies: Privacy/Property, Globalization and Law - Matthew David and Jameison Kirkhope Cultures of Copying: Digital Sampling and Copyright Law - L. Bentley and B. Sherman Sampling and Copyright - L. Bently Reconstructing the Soul of Elvis: The Social Development and Legal Importance of Elvis Presley as Intellectual Property - David Wall The Age of Consent: Traditional Music, Intellectual Property and Changing Attitudes in the People's Republic of China - H. Rees VOLUME 3: REPRESENTATION AND CONSUMPTION Representation The Content and Validity of Music-Genre Stereotypes among College Students - Peter Rentfrow and Samuel Gosling Music as Symbol, Music as Simulacrum: Postmodern, Pre-Modern and Modern Aesthetics in Subcultural Musics - Peter Manuel From the Margins to the Mainstream - R. Huq Open Letter: 'Black Music', 'Afro-American Music', and 'European Music' - Philip Tagg 'Leer-ics' and Lyrics: Teenage Impressions of Rock 'n' Roll - Lorraine Prinsky and Jill Leslie Rosenbaum Stars Frank Sinatra: The Popular Front and an American Icon - Gerald Meyer Rock Culture: The Dialectics of Life and Death - David Rowe Media Pop Music and the Press - James Trammell Radio Space and Industrial Time: Music Formats, Local Narratives and Technological Mediation - Jody Berland MTV and the Globalization of Popular Culture - Jack Banks Think Globally, Act Locally: China's Rendezvous with MTV - Anthony Fung From Music Publishing to MP3: Music and Industry in the Twentieth Century - Reebee Garofolo "Reality Goes Pop!": Reality TV, Popular Music and Narratives of Stardom in Pop Idol - Su Holmes Fans What about the Univores? Musical Dislikes and Group Based Identity Construction among Americans with Low Levels of Education - Bethany Bryson Amateur Experts: International Fan Labour in Swedish Independent Music - Nancy Baym and Robert Burnett Co-Creative Labour - John Banks and Mark Deuze VOLUME 4: CULTURES AND SUBCULTURES OF POPULAR MUSIC Cultures Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of the US and Japan - Ian Condry Youth Culture, Music and Cell Phone Branding in China - Jing Wang J-Pop and Performances of Young Female Identity: Music, Gender and Urban Space in Tokyo - Csaba Toth Rap Music and the Black Musical Tradition: A Critical Assessment - Andre Craddock-Willis Youth Subcultures and their Cultural Contexts - Jon Stratton Subcultures Subcultural Identity in Alternative Music Culture - Holly Kruse Digital Subculture: A Geek Meaning of Style - J. A. McArthur On the Evolution of Rai Music - Hana Noor Al-deen Subcultures or Neo-Tribes: Rethinking the Relationship between Youth, Style and Musical Taste - Andy Bennett Heavy Metal Music: A New Subculture in American Society? - Robert Gross Homies in the Hood: Rap's Commodification of Insubordination - Ted Swedenberg Creating a Scene: Balinese Punk Beginnings - E. Baluch Rave and Straightedge: Exploring Online and Offline Experiences in Canadian Youth Subcultures - B. Wilson and M. Atkinson World Music/Hybrid Formations Between Globalization and Localization: A Case Study of Hong Kong Popular Music - Wai-Chung Ho On Redefining the 'Local' Through World Music - J. Guilbault World Music: Deterritorializing Place and Identity - John Connell and Chris Gibson