ABSTRACT This article seeks to analyze how socio-political changes in the Iberian Peninsula, in the post-dictatorial period affected the course of youth cultures and the penetration of cosmopolitanism. Through a documentary analysis, we examined the diferences/similarities among youth cultures with a focus on the emergence of the Portuguese (post-punk) movement in the late 1970s, the 1980s boom of

ABSTRACT This article provides a sociocultural and musicological perspective on the question of how and whereby adolescents in Vienna negotiate their musical preferences and rejections. At the core of the article is the analysis of group discussions which were conducted with 16- to 18-year-old students. The study illustrates the complexity of popular music’s integration in young people’s frameworks

ABSTRACT This article contributes to histories of live music since digitalization and provides a corrective to the neglect of liveness in scholarship on streaming and platformization. The study argues that digital corporations and social media platforms are shaping the changing value and experience of live music, introducing new patterns of commodification, as digital technologies are incorporated

(2021). Cornell ’77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Rockin’ Movie Soundtracks. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Go West, Young Man! Definitive Western Themes, Classics, & Rarities. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shaped the World. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Pop Music and Hip Ennui: A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). 1957: the year that launched the American future. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Headin’ for the Christmas Ball: 31 Swing and R&B Christmas Crooners. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Transmissions, 1962–1968. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). No Home Record. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 352-355.

(2021). Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Brithop: The Politics of UK Rap in the New Century. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 346-349.

(2021). Brian Eno: Oblique Music. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 344-346.

ABSTRACT Though the Beatles drew inspiration from avant-garde composer John Cage in songs like “A Day in the Life,” Cage himself had little interest in popular music. In one isolated statement, though, Cage expressed uncharacteristic admiration for the Beatles. This article explores what, for Cage, made the Beatles important by considering his statement within the context of a cross-influential network

(2021). Destination Health: Doc Feelgood’s Rock Therapy. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 340-349.

(2021). These Arms of Mine: The Birth of Southern Soul. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Win the War Blues: The Blues and World War II. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT In a February 2017 article, Guitar World dubbed Annie Clark, known by her moniker St. Vincent, a “postmodern guitar hero.” Over the course of her career Clark has made a name for herself as a modern virtuoso guitarist. This is notable, given the electric guitar has traditionally been a masculine-gendered instrument.  This article explores how Clark subverts gendered stereotypes and expectations

(2021). Why Karen Carpenter Matters. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 44, Music and the Politics of Memory: Resounding Antifascism across Borders; Guest editors: Monika E. Schoop, Federico Spinetti, Ana Hofman, pp. 233-235.

This article examines the impacts of Covid19 on musicians and music professionals in the Iranian music industry, an industry that heavily depends on concerts and live performance. Placing the pande...

(2021). Nothing on Their Tongue but Hallelujah: Why Leonard Cohen’s Dark Hymn Will Forever Escape Trumping. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 107-110.

(2020). Vera Lynn, 1917-2020. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 582-585.

In this article, I observe the role of collective singing and listening in recalling, reconfiguring, and repurposing the memory of antifascism in the current practices of activism and social engage...

The idea for this special issue of Popular Music and Society was born out of a joint fieldwork project between the University of Cologne, Germany, and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in ...

The punk-rock band Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti (CSI) exemplifies a wider movement of musical memorialization of the World War II antifascist Resistenza in contemporary Italy. Considering music...

This article explores music as a medium of memory of anti-Nazi resistance looking at the Edelweispiratenfestival, its connected events and multimedia publications. It explores how the festival prov...

This article focuses on the song “L’estaca,” which was composed in 1968 by Catalan songwriter Lluis Llach and became emblematic of the struggle against the Francoist dictatorship. I trace the ways ...

In contemporary Chile the “new” Nueva Cancion Chilena movement has been actively defying the legacyof the neoliberal fascist counterrevolution imposed by the dictatorship.. In this context, Manuel ...

This paper critically engages the ways in which hip-hop artists and scholars have commonly defined authenticity and “the real” in relation to Black male identities with an emphasis on the dominant ...

In 1984, L.A. punk band Black Flag released My War. Coming three years after Damaged – a canonized classic of the hardcore genre – and following a period of legal dispute and touring hiatus, My War...

The emphasis that child “popera” stars like Charlotte Church, Jackie Evancho, and Amira Willighagen place on the sacred has serious ramifications for opera’s meaning in contemporary popular culture...

This article explores how the most recent works of the German Neue Deutsche Harte band Rammstein express a Vergangenheitsbewaltigung that is not limited to the history of the Nazi regime and divide...

Many British listeners were entertained by American popular recordings during World War II. This commercial audio invasion from abroad continued and expanded during the postwar years. Beginning in ...

Once upon a time, long before the regal recordings of Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, and Rihanna graced 21st century airwaves, the American musical realm was ruled by talented black women. Bessie Smith wa...

Music and Irish nationalism have a long codependent history, one that, for some commentators, was not to the advantage of musical life in Ireland. For Harry White, the cultural nationalism of the l...

In this article, I investigate the ways in which Rastafari discourse on repatriation to Africa – articulated through reggae music – engages utopianism to varying degrees based on the artists’ proxi...

Focusing on the theme of American exceptionalism, this essay explores the interplay between center and margin in punk rock produced in California in the late 1970s and early 1980s. After brief acco...

ABSTRACT In the year following Prince’s death, his iconic song “Purple Rain” played an important role in his fans’ and colleagues’ mourning. This article focuses on the ways three performances used Prince’s own voice and image as part of the public mourning process. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Minnesota, I examine how the same song presented in different contexts set the stage for varied emotional

Submissions are invited for a special issue of RockMusic Studies on Steely Dan at 50. The year 2022 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Steely Dan, based on the release date of their debut record, Can’t Buy a Thrill. If one observes the 1971 film soundtrack You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It (Or You’ll Lose That Beat), a record composed and performed by the Dan’s chief architects Donald Fagen andWalter

Following the news of the death of Prince on 21 April 2016, it was not long before iconic buildings and landmarks around the world were lit up in purple as the world mourned. It was as if the color purple had assumed a new and greater significance. We knew his music would live forever. In the obituary for this journal, Popular Music and Society, Stan Hawkins wrote: "Indisputably, Prince’s adeptness

French popular music is a niche interest outside France, so this dynamic collection of thought-provoking essays on numerous aspects of French popular music processes and repertoires is more than we...

(2020). Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 569-573.

The Birth of Loud honors Gibson’s Les Paul Model guitar and the Fender Stratocaster. These two gems of audio technology, along with the Fender Telecaster, Fender Precision Bass and Fender Showman a...

Year after year, Christmas music returns to the airwaves. Regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or religious preference, Americans are bombarded with holiday tunes each December. For many listeners...

ABSTRACT This study argues that Prince was fundamentally ambivalent towards the genre of hip-hop, and proposes a four-phase model for understanding Prince’s engagement with it. Though Prince was initially dismissive towards hip-hop, over time he incorporated hip-hop elements such as rapped vocals and drum-machine based musical textures. As hip-hop gained national popularity and threatened Prince’s

Punk is frequently overlooked and underappreciated as a fundamental shaper of popular culture. The history of fanzines has been well documented, from their origins as home-made magazines by science...

Car songs are fascinating. They are thematically diverse. They appear among various musical genres. And they reflect a multitude of opinions about vehicles, love, life, and travel. Mobility and tec...

ABSTRACT This article explores the stances, ideas, and political vision of Prince Rogers Nelson through some of the songs he wrote and recorded. Prince used the term “aware” to describe someone who was knowledgeable. As he often demonstrated, he was concerned with some of the world’s big problems. Prince was consistently against war. Some of his songs contained lyrics decrying gun violence and calling

ABSTRACT This article explores Prince’s LM-1 rhythm programming techniques and sound ideals by considering song examples, interviews with Prince’s engineers and musicians, and online fan discussion. It is argued that given the constraints of music technologies in the early 1980 s and the production workflows for using them, Prince’s drum programming remains a model of compelling groove-making. By sequencing

ABSTRACT Prince opened the doors of diversity and opportunity for his race, ensuring that African Americans are seen as the beautiful bouquet that they are. By refusing to allow anyone but himself to define him, Prince practiced kujichagulia (self-determination). Thus, Prince became the archetype of the post-civil rights African American. His work identifies with a group of African Americans engaging

ABSTRACT In this music-analytic interpretation of two love songs from Prince’s Around the World in a Day album, we investigate the properties of groove, arrangement, and vocality, all of which contribute to the artist’s inimitable signature. With a disciplinary grounding in musicology, we demonstrate ways whereby musical features are associated with meaning in recorded songs. Underlying the approach

The image of teenagers in the 1950s has permeated popular culture for decades. Within public historical memory, these kids seem perpetually carefree, dancing to jukebox tunes, sharing sodas with da...

ABSTRACT Prince Rogers Nelson (1958–2016) was a once-in-a-generation songwriter, instrumentalist, singer, performer, and entrepreneur, occupying a singular place in the history of twentieth-century popular music. I served as his staff recording engineer during four of his most productive years (1983–1987), working on albums from Purple Rain through the unreleased Black Album. This article offers my

American popular music performers and listening audiences display deep affection for wedding songs. From Cole Porter to Smokey Robinson, romantic lyricists have parlayed catchy conversation lines a...

ABSTRACT This article analyzes musical practices of rurality in Asturias (northern Spain), focusing on these practices as transits beyond rural-urban, local-transnational, and music-life dichotomies. We map out three modes of the production of locality in relation to musical heritage in order to point out a prevalence of the phenomena of “aural friction” (García-Flórez) and “mutuality” (Colón-Montijo)