Understanding popular music culture /

Shuker, Roy

Understanding popular music culture / Roy Shuker - Fifth edition - 298 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music and the debates that surround popular culture and popular music. Reflecting the continued proliferation of popular music studies, the new music industry in a digital age and the emergence of new stars, this new edition has been reorganized and extensively updated throughout, making for a more coherent and sequenced coverage of the field. - Provided by the publisher




Text in English

9781138907836 9781138907850 9781315694870


Popular music -- history and criticism
Popular culture -- history -- 20th century
Popular music -- history and criticism

781.64 / .Sh562 2016