The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class - (Bloomsbury Handbooks) by Ian Peddie (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Encompassing contemporary research in ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, history, and race studies, the volume explores the intersections between music and class, and how the meanings of class are asserted and denied, confused and clarified, through music. With chapters on key genres, traditions, and subcultures, as well as fresh and engaging directions for future scholarship, the volume considers how music has thought about and articulated social class. It consists entirely of original contributions written by internationally renowned scholars, and provides an essential reference point for scholars interested in the relationship between popular music and social class.

Review Quotes

"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class contains a great number of insightful case studies that open up a variety of perspectives on the topic. In this way, it is bound to inspire future research, including historical studies." --H-Soz-Kult

About the Author

Ian Peddie is Professor of English at Sul Ross State University, USA. He is the author of Music and Protest (2012), Popular Music and Human Rights Volumes I and II (2011), and editor of The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest (2006).