Further Reading

The following is a selection of general overviews of the field, edited collections, and studies of key terms and concepts:

Bennett, A., Shank, B., and Toynbee, J. (eds) (2006) The Popular Music Studies Reader, London and New York: Routledge.

Clayton, M., Herbert T., and Middleton, R. (eds) (2012) The Cultural Study of Music. A Critical Introduction, 2nd edition, New York and London: Routledge.

Frith, S. (2007) Taking Popular Music Seriously. Selected Essays, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Frith, S. and Goodwin, A. (eds) (1990) On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word, New York: Pantheon Books. (The scope of this influential early study can be usefully set alongside and compared with later ‘Readers’, to show the changing emphases in the field of study.)

Hesmondhalgh, D. and Negus, K. (eds) (2004) Popular Music Studies, London: Arnold.

Horner, B. and Swiss, T. (eds) (1999) Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.

Kotarba, J. and Vannini, P. (2009) Understanding Society Through Popular Music, New York and London: Routledge.

Longhurst, B. (2007) Popular Music and Society, 2nd edition, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Negus, K. (1996) Popular Music in Theory, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Regev, M. (2013) Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Shuker, R. (2012) Popular Music: The Key Concepts, 3rd edition, London: Routledge.

Shepherd, J. and Horn, D. (eds) The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, London and New York: Continuum.