The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dines, Michael.

Contributor:

Rambarran, Shara.

Smith, Gareth Dylan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music.

Musicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (958 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, Limited, 2025.

Summary:

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies provides a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. The volume includes a wide range of methodologies, including semiotics, ethnography, psychology, intersectionality, archeology, livestreaming and esports. 30 b&w illus. Part of the Intellect Handbooks collection.

Contents:

Cover

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies

Copyright

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction Mapping the Field: Explorations in the Study of Popular Music

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONAL APPROACHES TOWARDS A MUSICOLOGY OF POPULAR MUSIC

Chapter 1 Critical Popular Music Studies: Interrogating the Methodological Meanings and Discursive Politics of 'Critical' and 'Popular'

Chapter 2 Methods for the Twenty-First Century: Artistic Research as a New Research Paradigm in Popular Music Studies

Chapter 3: Theorizing Aesthetics in a Practical Musicology

Chapter 4: Biographical Method and Interview as Techniques in Brazilian Communication and Music Studies

Chapter 5: Beyond Popular Song: Analysing Persona-Environment Relationships in Contemporary Musical Theatre

Chapter 6: The Cultural Imagination and Its Role in Researching Popular Music

Chapter 7: Semiotics as a Mode of Popular Music Analysis and Interpretation

Chapter 8: Form and Function: Deconstructing Music Graphics

PART TWO: BACK TO THE FUTURE: ARTEFACTS, ARCHAEOLOGY, ARCHIVE AND HERITAGE

Chapter 9: Do-It-Together: Punk Methodologies for Researching the Heritage of Popular Music

Chapter 10: Records, Subjects and Agents: Exploring Archives of Popular Music through Critical Archival Studies

Chapter 11: Issues in US Forensic Musicological Analysis of Popular Music

Chapter 12: The Cover-Version Spectrum: Reframing the Relationship between Imitation and Transformation in Pop-Punk Cover-Versions

Chapter 13: Digging in the Takes: Using Archaeological Approaches to Study Popular Music History

Chapter 14: Focused Musical Artefact Analysis

PART THREE: EXPLORING ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES IN POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES

Chapter 15: Adele Clarke's Situational Analysis and Its Potential for Popular Music Studies.

Chapter 16: Cosmopolitan Hubs: Glocalization and Non-Native Culture Brokers in the Globalization of Popular Music Cultures

Chapter 17: Art Gallery Drum Kit Solos, Spirituality and Practical Musicology

Chapter 18: Ethnographic Methods and Ethics for Online Cultures of Popular Music

Chapter 19: Internet Pop Reception as Sonic Autoethnography: Circulating Music, Story and Self Online

PART FOUR: SEXUALITY, RACE AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN THE STUDY OF POPULAR MUSIC

Chapter 20: Is It Drag? Trans Perspectives on Queering Popular Music Research

Chapter 21: Staying in the Field: Emotional Labour and Trauma in Popular Music Ethnography

Chapter 22 Representing Power through China Wind Music: The Soft and Hard Masculinities of the Nation

Chapter 23 The Conferralist Framework: Method and Application in Popular Music Studies

Chapter 24: When 'Up for It' Is Not for Everyone: From Content Analysis to the Music Analysis of Sexualization Model (MAS-Model): An Approximation of Contemporary Music from a Decolonial Lens

PART FIVE: APPROACHES TOWARDS A POPULAR MUSIC PEDAGOGY

Chapter 25: Person-Centred Popular Music Education: Negotiating Gender, Community and Industry Expectations

Chapter 26: Popular Music Education Methodologies in the United States: An Overview

Chapter 27: Process-Based Pedagogies for Creative Practice Studies

Chapter 28: Reflective Piano Pedagogy: Improvisation and Composition in Classical and Contemporary Repertoires

Chapter 29: Popular Music Production: Rethinking Recording Studio Labels

PART SIX: POPULAR MUSIC AND CONNECTEDNESS: RECOVERY STUDIES, MUSIC AUDIENCES AND SPIRITUALITY

Chapter 30: Exploring Post-Subcultural Participation through a Practice-Centred Approach: The Case of the Vaporwave (Virtual) Scene.

Chapter 31 Recovery Studies and Pop Musicology: The Twelve Steps as Lyrical, Visual and Sonic Rhetoric

Chapter 32: When Is a Music Audience? The Challenges of a Sociological Perspective of Music Audiences in the Platform Age

Chapter 33 Studying Religion and Popular Music

Chapter 34: In Search of Krishna: Narrative Enquiry and the Trajectory of the Spiritual in Krishnacore

PART SEVEN: THINKING AHEAD: EMERGING METHODOLOGIES IN POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES

Chapter 35 Confronting Climate Change in Popular Music Texts: Nostalgia, Apocalypse, Utopia

Chapter 36: Do Meat-Eaters Dream of Vengeful Sheep? Towards a Methodology for Animal-Oriented Music Criticism

Chapter 37: An Ecosemiotic Approach to the Analysis of Timbre

Chapter 38: Research Methods in Live Electronic Music and Audio-Visual Performance

Chapter 39: Technology, Creativity and Pop Music Production: The Case of Cantopop

Chapter 40: Studying Playlist Cultures with Qualitative Digital Methods

Chapter 41 Popular Music in Esports, On and Beyond the Stage

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

1-83595-104-X

1-83595-105-8

OCLC:

1527722408