An Investigation of Chinese College Students' Access to European and American Popular Music in the Social Media Environment [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to explore how Chinese college students acquire European and American popular music in the social media environment. With the popularization of the Internet and the development of social media, college students gradually tend
Zhang Dingchen
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Twenty First Century Popular Music Studies [PDF]
This paper introduces the IASPM Journal special edition entitled Twenty-First Century Popular Music Studies (PMS), in which a number of papers respond to Philip Tagg’s paper “Caught on the Back Foot: Epistemic Inertia and Visible Music” (2011). Respondents discuss a lack of ethnographic methodology in three prominent journals, Popular Music, Popular ...
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Center for Popular Music Research and Popular Music Studies in Serbia: Institutionalization on the musicological margins [PDF]
The subject of this article is the Center for Popular Music Research in Belgrade, Serbia, founded in 2013. More precisely, this paper deals with the context of the foundation of the Center on the “margins” of musicology, its initial ideas, struggles, realized projects, and some plans for the future.
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I Hear Music: Popular Music and its Mediations [PDF]
Using as its platform Philip Tagg’s 2011 article ‘Caught on the back foot: Epistemic inertia and visible music’, this essay identifies gaps in the literature of popular music studies.
Bruce Johnson
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Marketing and materiality in the popular music transmedia of Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach
The entertainment complexes of narrative transmedia contain few instances based in popular music. However, those that exist provide intriguing case studies, highly distinct from those based in film and television.
Alex-David Jeffery
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Intercultural Changes in Music Tastes of Iranian Adult Population: The Role of New Technologies, Media Convergence, and Globalization [PDF]
Music consumption, as an important form of cultural consumption in the daily lives of Iranians, has been the subject of political focus before and after the Revolution, 1979.
Abdollah Bicharanlou +2 more
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Musical Structure as Narrative in Rock
In an attempt to take a fresh look at the analysis of form in rock music, this paper uses Susan McClary’s (2000) idea of ‘quest narrative’ in Western art music as a starting point.
John Fernando Encarnacao
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Dancing in the Dark. MTV, Music Videos, Bruce Springsteen and the Aesthetics of Rock in the Eighties
Although born in the seventies, music videos are considered one of the cultural and media symbols of the Eighties. This paper will focus on the aesthetics of music videos in the Eighties in a new perspective, that goes beyond the postmodern approach ...
Gianni Sibilla
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What popular music can teach us about certain issues- such as ethnic discrimination and the social constructedness of racial categories- is the subject in George Lipsitz’s Footsteps in the Dark: The hidden Histories of Popular Music, a book in which ...
Mark Burford
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Theoretical proposal for a sociology of popular music
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the study of popular music, starting from some concepts and theories appeared in the sociological field, specifically on the sociology of culture and arts.
Fernán del Val Ripollés
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