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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture offers a comprehensive and current overview of key themes and debates in the academic study of popular music and youth culture. With 32 original chapters by leading scholars, it covers theory, methodology, historical perspectives, genres, audiences, media, globalization, ageing, and generation, making it an essential reference in a rapidly expanding field.
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This book is ideal for students, academics, and researchers interested in popular music, youth culture, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as anyone seeking a thorough and scholarly exploration of contemporary and historical music cultures linked to youth.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture provides a comprehensive and fully up-to-date overview of key themes and debates relating to the academic study of popular music and youth culture.

While this is a highly popular and rapidly expanding field of research, there currently exists no single-source reference book for those interested in this topic.

The handbook is comprised of 32 original chapters written by leading authors in the field of popular music and youth culture and covers a range of topics including: theory; method; historical perspectives; genre; audience; media; globalization; ageing and generation.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501333699

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 January 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Contributors:

  • Edited by Professor Andy Bennett

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 44.0mm

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 258.0mm

Weight: 1500g

Pages: 704

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Music & Musicians Non-Fiction Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

About the Author

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia. A leading international figure in sociological studies of popular music and youth culture, he has written and edited numerous books including Popular Music and Youth Culture, Music, Style and Aging, and Music Scenes. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sociology between 2009 and 2012, and is currently a member of the Editorial Boards for the journals Cultural Sociology, Journal of Youth Studies, Continuum, Sociology Compass, Perfect Beat and Canadian Journal of Popular Culture.

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