Understanding Popular Music is a comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of
popular music. It begins with a critical assessment of the different ways in which popular …

Can politics be combined with entertainment? Can political involvement and participation be
fun? Politics and popular culture are converging all the time, whether it's in Arnold …

Musicology: the Key Concepts provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary
musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of terms …

Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal
study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies …

Although music is known to be part of the great social movements that have rocked the
world, its specific contribution to political struggle has rarely been closely analyzed. Is it truly …

How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has
long been associated with political dissent, and the nation state has consistently …

The study of music in war and music for peace has received surprisingly little attention in
ethnomusicology. While a number of important publications do exist, these usually concern …

This volume examines the various ways popular music has been deployed as anti-
establishment and how such opposition both influences and responds to the music …

The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music
matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to …

In an era of the rise of the free market and economic globalization, Martin Cloonan examines
why politicians and policymakers in the UK have sought to intervene in popular music-a field …