Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen essays that critically examines the idea of the "mainstream" in and across a variety of popular

Now in an updated fourth edition, this popular A-Z student handbook provides a comprehensive survey of key ideas and concepts in popular music culture. With new

Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies. From his earliest academic publicat

Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volu

This book critically discusses the significance of popular music heritage as a means of remembering and re-presenting rock and pop artists, their music and thei