Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

The research presented in this volume is very recent and the general approach is that of rethinking popular musicology: its purpose its aims and its methods. Contributors to the volume were asked to write something original and at the same time to provide an instructive example of a particular way of working and thinking. The essays have been written with a view to helping graduate students with research methodology and the application of relevant theoretical models. The team of contributors is an exceptionally strong one: it contains many of the pre-eminent academic figures involved in popular musicological research and there is a spread of European American Asian and Australasian scholars. The volume covers seven main themes: Film Video and Multimedia; Technology and Studio Production; Gender and Sexuality; Identity and Ethnicity; Performance and Gesture; Reception and Scenes and The Music Industry and Globalization. The Ashgate Research Companion is designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companion's editor brings together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality providing a comprehensive reference to the field.