Table Of Contents:

• VOLUME 1: HISTORY AND THEORETICAL TRADITIONS
• Defining the Popular
• Popular
• Introduction from The Troubadours
• The Troubadour Tradition in Italy and England
• On Popular Music
• Authorship
• Towards an Aesthetics of Popular Music
• Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music
• The Music Industry and the 'Cultural Imperialism' Thesis
• World Beat and the Cultural Imperialism Debate
• Disciplinary Approaches
• Musicology
• Analyzing Popular Music: Theory, Method and Practice
• Popular Music Analysis and Musicology: Bridging the Gap
• Sociology
• Sociological Approaches to the Pop Music Phenomenon
• Towards a Cultural Sociology of Popular Music
• Culture, Media and Communication
• Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Communities and Scenes in Popular Music
• Madonna: Mother of Mirrors
• Political Science
• The Politics of Popular Music
• The Politics of Youth Culture: Some Observations on Rock and Roll in America
• Psychology
• From the Functions of Music To Music Preferences
• Selective Hearing: Gender Bias in the Music Preferences of Young Adults
• Philosophy
• Valuing and Evaluating Popular Music
• A Critique of Folk, Popular and 'Art' Music
• Cultural Geography
• Recorded Music and Practices of Remembering
• The Anomalies of being Faye (Wong): Gender Politics in Chinese Popular Music
• VOLUME 2: TECHNOLOGY AND COPYRIGHT
• Formations of Technology
• Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music
• Art versus Technology: The Strange Case of Popular Music
• The Sound of Music: Technological Rationalization and the Production of Popular Music
• The Walkman Effect
• Long Play: Adult-Orientated Popular Music and the Temporal Logics of the Post-War Sound Recording Industry in the USA
• Sample and Hold
• Building International Empires of Sound: Concentrations of Power and Property in the 'Global' Music Market
• Flexibility, Post-Fordism and the Music Industries
• Globalization of Mass Media Ownership: Implications and Effects
• Copyright and Illegal Downloading
• Copyright and the Music Business
• The Effects of Piracy upon the Music Industry: A Case of Bootlegging
• New Digital Technologies: Privacy/Property, Globalization and Law
• Cultures of Copying: Digital Sampling and Copyright Law
• Sampling and Copyright
• Reconstructing the Soul of Elvis: The Social Development and Legal Importance of Elvis Presley as Intellectual Property
• The Age of Consent: Traditional Music, Intellectual Property and Changing Attitudes in the People's Republic of China
• VOLUME 3: REPRESENTATION AND CONSUMPTION
• Representation
• The Content and Validity of Music-Genre Stereotypes among College Students
• Music as Symbol, Music as Simulacrum: Postmodern, Pre-Modern and Modern Aesthetics in Subcultural Musics
• From the Margins to the Mainstream
• Open Letter: 'Black Music', 'Afro-American Music', and 'European Music'
• 'Leer-ics' and Lyrics: Teenage Impressions of Rock 'n' Roll
• Stars
• Frank Sinatra: The Popular Front and an American Icon
• Rock Culture: The Dialectics of Life and Death
• Media
• Pop Music and the Press
• Radio Space and Industrial Time: Music Formats, Local Narratives and Technological Mediation
• MTV and the Globalization of Popular Culture
• Think Globally, Act Locally: China's Rendezvous with MTV
• From Music Publishing to MP3: Music and Industry in the Twentieth Century
• "Reality Goes Pop!": Reality TV, Popular Music and Narratives of Stardom in Pop Idol
• Fans
• What about the Univores? Musical Dislikes and Group Based Identity Construction among Americans with Low Levels of Education
• Amateur Experts: International Fan Labour in Swedish Independent Music
• Co-Creative Labour
• VOLUME 4: CULTURES AND SUBCULTURES OF POPULAR MUSIC
• Cultures
• Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of the US and Japan
• Youth Culture, Music and Cell Phone Branding in China
• J-Pop and Performances of Young Female Identity: Music, Gender and Urban Space in Tokyo
• Rap Music and the Black Musical Tradition: A Critical Assessment
• Youth Subcultures and their Cultural Contexts
• Subcultures
• Subcultural Identity in Alternative Music Culture
• Digital Subculture: A Geek Meaning of Style
• On the Evolution of Rai Music
• Subcultures or Neo-Tribes: Rethinking the Relationship between Youth, Style and Musical Taste
• Heavy Metal Music: A New Subculture in American Society?
• Homies in the Hood: Rap's Commodification of Insubordination
• Creating a Scene: Balinese Punk Beginnings
• Rave and Straightedge: Exploring Online and Offline Experiences in Canadian Youth Subcultures
• World Music/Hybrid Formations
• Between Globalization and Localization: A Case Study of Hong Kong Popular Music
• On Redefining the 'Local' Through World Music
• World Music: Deterritorializing Place and Identity