Media and Popular Music - (Media Topics) by Peter Mills (Paperback)

About the Book

A study of the relationships between music and contemporary media.

Book Synopsis

This book analyses the relationships between music and contemporary media, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. It does so through a series of original interviews with key practitioners: musicians, writers, magazine editors, radio presenters and major and independent label bosses. Through these interviews, theory and practice are measured against each other and the book considers their experiences and observations in order to explore the ways popular music is produced, marketed and mediated. Examining visual, print, radio and new media, Media and Popular Music draws together disparate elements of music and media which formerly have not been considered together, and provides a fresh and innovative contribution to the swiftly growing field of popular music studies. *Key Features *Presents key topics via chapter-long case studies and more broadly applied theoretical analyses *Uses media theory and cultural theory to shed fresh light on theory and practice *Discusses music in relation to visual and print media.

From the Back Cover

ENDORSEMENTS TO FOLLOW

Volumes in the Media Topics series critically examine the core subject areas within Media Studies. Each volume offers a critical overview as well as an original intervention into the subject. Volume topics include: media theory and practice, history, policy, ethics, politics, discourse, culture and audience.

This book analyses the relationships between contemporary media and popular music, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. It does so through a series of original interviews with key practitioners: musicians, writers, magazine editors, radio presenters and major and independent label bosses. Those interviewed include Mark Ellen, editor of Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and currently Word magazines; Mark Cooper, producer of Later...with Jools Holland and CEO of Music Entertainment at the BBC; Ben Watt, half of Everything But The Girl and owner of independent label Buzzin' Fly; and Fiona Talkington, original and current presenter of the Sony Award winning Late Junction on BBC Radio 3. Through these interviews, theory and practice are measured against each other and the book considers their experiences and observations in order to explore the ways popular music is produced, marketed and mediated.

Examining visual, print, radio and new media, Media and Popular Music draws together disparate elements of music and media which formerly have not been considered together, and provides a fresh and innovative contribution to the swiftly growing field of popular music studies.

Peter Mills is Senior Lecturer in Media and Popular Culture, Leeds Metropolitan University and was singer and lyricist for the band Innocents Abroad who made two albums, Quaker City and Eleven.

About the Author

Peter Mills is Senior Lecturer in Media and Popular Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author of Hymns To The Silence, a major study of the work of Van Morrison published by Continuum in 2010, alongside work on Samuel Beckett, Olaf Stapledon, Hungarian folk music, Pink Floyd and the KLF. He is currently preparing studies of the work of Kate Rusby, Jake Thackray and 'Popular Music and the Moving Image'. He was singer and lyricist for the band Innocents Abroad who made two albums, Quaker City and Eleven.