Format: Paperback
Pages: 249
ISBN: 9780819563101
Pub Date: 30 Mar 1997
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Description:
Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Book Award (1998)Popular Music in Theory is an original introduction to the key theoretical issues which arise in the study of contemporary popular music. It is organized in a way that shows how popular music is created across a series of relationships that link together industry and audiences, producers and consumers. Starting from the dichotomy between production and consumption which characterizes much work on popular culture, Keith Negus explores the equally significant social processes that intervene between and across the production-consumption divide, and examines how popular music is mediated by technological, cultural, historical, geographical, and political factors.