Popular Music in Theory

"... Shows how popular music is created across a series of relationships that link together industry and audiences, producers and consumers. Explores the equally significant social processes that intervene between and across the production-consumption divide, examining the ways that popular music is mediated by a series of technological, cultural, historical, geographical and political factors. This broad framework provides signposts to various tracks taken by the sounds and images of popular music, and also highlights distinctive theoretical routes into the study of contemporary music."

First sentence: This book has been written as a systematic attempt to outline, explain and provide a critical introduction to some of the major theoretical issues and debates in the study of contemporary popular music.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Polity Press

Editions

2

Pages

248

ISBN

9780745613185

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