GBP 78 Popular Music Editors Lucy Green University of London, UK Dave Laing University of Westminster, UK Popular Music is an international multi-disciplinary journal covering all aspects of the subject from the formation of social group identities through popular music, to the workings of the global music industry, or how particular pieces of music are put together. Relating to any kind of popular music, from the global commercial sphere to local folk or traditional music from any historical era or geographical origin, the journal carries articles by scholars from a large variety of perspectives. These include the anthropology of music, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, feminism, gender studies, geography, history, literature studies, media studies, musicology, sociology and any other disciplines or cross-disciplines that can be shown to have relevance to the subject. Each issue contains substantial, authoritative and influential articles, shorter topical pieces, and reviews of a wide range of books. Presenting scholarly debate and analysis, the journal keeps readers up to date with the latest developments in popular music research.
Some issues are thematic.
An annual annotated book list of popular music titles from around the world is also included.