Understanding Popular Music Culture

<p>This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of <i>Understanding Popular Music Culture</i> provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production distribution consumption and meaning of popular music and the debates that surround popular culture and popular music. </p><p>Reflecting the continued proliferation of popular music studies the new music industry in a digital age and the emergence of new stars this new edition has been reorganized and extensively updated throughout making for a more coherent and sequenced coverage of the field. These updates include:</p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>two new chapters entitled ‘The Real Thing’: Authenticity covers and the canon and ‘Time Will Pass You By’: Histories and popular memory</li> <li>new case studies on artists including The Rolling Stones Lorde One Direction and Taylor Swift</li> <li>further examples of musical texts genres and performers throughout including additional coverage of Electronic Dance Music</li> <li>expanded coverage on the importance of the back catalogue and the box set; reality television and the music biopic</li> <li>greater attention to the role and impact of the internet and digital developments in relation to production dissemination mediation and consumption; including the role of social network sites and streaming services</li> <li>each chapter now has its own set of expanded references to facilitate further investigation.</li> <ul> </ul> </ul><p>Additional resources for students and teachers can also be found on the companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/shuker) which includes additional case studies links to relevant websites and a discography of popular music metagenres.</p>