* Nominated for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Prize*
Partly because they are the objects of such intense adulation by fans popular musicians …

This article introduces a special section concerned with precariousness and cultural work. Its
aim is to bring into dialogue three bodies of ideas—the work of the autonomous …

Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music,
examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. It provides an …

That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader brings together the best-known and most
influential writings on rap and hip-hop from its beginnings to today. Spanning nearly 25 …

Popular music has been called the soundtrack to our lives: we can hear it on the radio,
through our computer, on our iPod or mobile phone, via a CD player or vinyl record deck …

This article offers an ethnographic account of the significance of rap music and hip hop
culture for white youth in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in north‐east England. Although …

The valuing of old clothes as “vintage” and the recollection of the sartorial past, whether
through second-hand consumption or the wearing of new old-fashioned clothes, has …

This new study of British popular music shows how it engages with class in mythical ways
that allow audiences to perform class-based identities. Case studies on folk rock, punk and …

To date, there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from
1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do …

This book provides a vivid historical ethnography of the 1970s Northern Soul Scene,
drawing on the author's personal involvement in this as well as extensive research. The …