In an essay published in this journal's first volume, Jonathan Sterne provocatively argued
that there is no music industry. This article uses the American comic book industry to further …

In January 2015, there was a media-led fan campaign known by its hashtag# tay4hottest100
to vote Taylor Swift's track 'Shake it off'into the Hottest 100 music poll. The campaign …

In recent years, popular music museums have been established in high profile locations in
many of the presumed “musical capitals” of the world, such as Los Angeles, Liverpool …

In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism's significance for styles, practices and meanings
of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes …

Description: New York City: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.| Includes bibliographical
references and index.| Summary:“An examination of the popular music museum and its …

This thesis is a sustained look at ordinary young people's leisure patterns and changing
lifestyles in Sheffield between 1960 and 1989. It argues that the post-war period witnessed …

This Thesis by Creative Works advances a new method of songwriting centred around the
concept of persona. Drawing on Csikszentmihalyi's Systems Model of Creativity and …

The 2000s, a decade that is often considered lacking in defining culture or trends,
represents a key period for the distillation of ideas about authenticity and access in North …