Readings and Resources

There is no text book for this course.

All readings for tutorials are supplied via WebCT as PDF files (see Course Readings).

Useful Journals

Popular Music Journal, Cambridge University Press

Popular Music and Society Journal, Bowling Green State University

General texts on popular music and culture

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

DeNora, T. (2003) After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Frith, S. (1981) Sound effects: Youth, leisure and the politics of Rock'n'roll, New York, Pantheon Books.

Frith, S. & Goodwin, A. (Eds.) (1990) On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word, London and New York, Routledge.

Longhurst, B. (1995) Popular Music and Society, Cambridge, Blackwell Publishers.

Middleton, R. (1990) Studying Popular Music, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, Open University Press.

Negus, K. (1996) Popular Music in Theory, Middletown, Wesleyan University Press.

Ross, A. & Rose, T. (1994) Microphone Fiends: Youth music and youth culture. New York, Routledge.

Shuker, R. (2001) Understanding Popular Music, 2nd Edition, London; New York, Routledge.

--- (2005) Popular Music: The key concepts, New York, Routledge.

Storey, J. (1997) An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture (2nd Ed), London & New York, Prentice Hall.

Strinati, D. (2004) An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture, London and New York, Routledge.

Wicke, P. (1990) Rock Music: Culture, aesthetics and sociology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.