The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies is the first comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. The collection incorporates a wide range of practitioners, pedagogues and academics from across the discipline, and has contributions from established key thinkers in popular music studies. The strength of the collection lies in its inclusion of many new and emerging writers in the field. Mike Dines is programme leader for BA (Hons) music and MA in professional arts practice at Middlesex University, London, UK. Shara Rambarran is a musicologist, writer and senior lecturer in music, business and media at the University of Brighton, UK. Gareth Dylan Smith is assistant professor of music at Boston University, USA. The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies provides a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. Alongside contributions from key thinkers already established in popular music studies, the strength of the collection lies in its inclusion of many new and emerging writers in the field. Therefore, the collection incorporates a wide range of practitioners, pedagogues and academics from an extensive range of disciplines, and thus drawing from a diversity of methodological approaches. These include those that are perhaps more established, such as semiotics, ethnography and psychology, alongside exciting new approaches within popular music, including eco-musicology, religion, intersectionality and archeology. Although previous books have provided an overall of concepts studied within popular music studies, this will be the first comprehensive Handbook of popular music methodologies.