Preface
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Arrangement of the Material
Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions
Documentation
Popular Music Studies
Social Phenomena
Stylistic and Textual Dimensions
Venues
Part II: The Industry
General Terms
Audio Technical Terms
Broadcasting
Copyright
Deals and Contracts
The Film Industry and Popular Music
Instrument Manufacture
Management and Marketing
Publishing
Recording: Record Corporations; Recording Studios; Record
Labels/Companies
Unions
Index
Edited by distinguished scholars in the field of popular music studies, this encyclopedia set is THE authoritative reference guide to popular music from all corners of the globe, the ultimate reference work to do justice to this vibrant subject.
John Shepherd is a Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Carleton University, Canada. He has been a member of EPMOW’s editorial board since 1990 and has published widely in the sociology and aesthetics of music and popular music studies. David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). He proposed the idea of EPMOW with blues scholar Paul Oliver in the 1980s and has worked on the project since then. Dave Laing is the author of several books on popular music and a former editor of Music Week. Former Research Fellow at the University of Westminster where he conducted research on the music industry. Paul Oliver is a Fellow of Oxford Brookes University. Center for Popular Music Research, The Humboldt Univeristy, Berlin
This is an extraordinary achievement and it will become an
absolutely vital and trusted resource for everyone working in the
field of popular music studies. Even more broadly, anyone
interested in popular music or popular culture more generally will
enjoy - and find many uses for - the wealth of information and
insight captured in this volume.
*Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Professor of Communication
Studies and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill*
"These first two volumes (of a projected 12) portend great things
for the set. Among the 250 contributors are most of the leading
scholars, musicians, and journalists in popular music studies.
Nearly 20 years in the making, the encyclopedia responds to a need
for a comprehensive approach to popular music, one that would give
due attention to non-Anglo-American musics. To that end, much
thought was devoted to the taxonomy and layout of each volume.
Rather than simply listing entries alphabetically, each volume
presents broad topics in some detail, with indexes in each volume
to bring subjects together. An important...addition to the canon of
popular music studies. Highly recommended." -Choice
*Choice*
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