Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 1: Media, Industry, Society

by John Shepherd (Editor), David Horn (Editor), Dave Laing (Editor), Paul Oliver (Editor), Peter Wicke (Editor)

Overview

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.

This and all other volumes of the Encyclopedia are now available through an online version of the Encyclopedia: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/encyclopedia-work?docid=BPM_reference_EPMOW. A general search function for the whole Encyclopedia is also available on this site. A subscription is required to access individual entries. Please see: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/for-librarians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826463210
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/2003
Series:	Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World
Pages:	832
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.75(d)

About the Author

John Shepherd is a Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at Carleton University, Canada. He has been a member of EPMOW's editorial board since 1990 and has published widely in the sociology and aesthetics of music and popular music studies.

David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). He proposed the idea of EPMOW with blues scholar Paul Oliver in the 1980s and has worked on the project since then.

Dave Laing is the author of several books on popular music and a former editor of Music Week. Former Research Fellow at the University of Westminster where he conducted research on the music industry.

Paul Oliver is a Fellow of Oxford Brookes University.

Peter Wicke was Professor of the Theory and History of Popular Music and retirement Director of the Research Centre for Popular Music at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, until his retirement in 2016. He is one of the founding members of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).

Table of Contents

Preface
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Arrangement of the Material
Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions
Documentation
Popular Music Studies
Social Phenomena
Stylistic and Textual Dimensions
Venues
Part II: The Industry
General Terms
Audio Technical Terms
Broadcasting
Copyright
Deals and Contracts
The Film Industry and Popular Music
Instrument Manufacture
Management and Marketing
Publishing
Recording: Record Corporations; Recording Studios; Record Labels/Companies
Unions
Index

Editorial Reviews

This is an extraordinary achievement and it will become an absolutely vital and trusted resource for everyone working in the field of popular music studies. Even more broadly, anyone interested in popular music or popular culture more generally will enjoy - and find many uses for - the wealth of information and insight captured in this volume.” —Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“"These first two volumes (of a projected 12) portend great things for the set. Among the 250 contributors are most of the leading scholars, musicians, and journalists in popular music studies. Nearly 20 years in the making, the encyclopedia responds to a need for a comprehensive approach to popular music, one that would give due attention to non-Anglo-American musics. To that end, much thought was devoted to the taxonomy and layout of each volume. Rather than simply listing entries alphabetically, each volume presents broad topics in some detail, with indexes in each volume to bring subjects together. An important...addition to the canon of popular music studies. Highly recommended." -Choice” —Choice

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