Global Popular Music

<p><i>Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide </i>offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set. Featuring a broad range of subjects people cultures and geographic areas and spanning musical genres such as traditional folk jazz rock reggae samba rai punk hip-hop and many more this guide highlights different approaches and discussions within global popular music research. This research guide is comprehensive in scope providing a vital resource for scholars and students approaching the vast amount of publications on popular music studies and popular music traditions around the world. Thorough cross-referencing and robust indexes of genres places names and subjects make the guide easy to use.</p><p>Volume 1 <i>Global Perspectives in Popular Music Studies</i> situates popular music studies within global perspectives and geocultural settings at large. It offers over nine hundred in-depth annotated bibliographic entries of interdisciplinary research and several topical categories that include analytical critical and historical studies; theory methodology and musicianship studies; annotations of in-depth special issues published in scholarly journals on different topics issues trends and music genres in popular music studies that relate to the contributions of numerous musicians artists bands and music groups; and annotations of selected reference works.</p>