On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements

Abstract or Summary

With Kai Arne Hansen (co-editor). On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements explores the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors cover genres as diverse as mainstream pop, instrumental synthwave, and amateur ukelele groups, while also considering the music’s relationship to technological developments, various media and material(itie)s, and personal and social identity, all drawing on a range of methodologies and theoretical positions from contemporary popular music research. The book’s three major sections address wider theoretical and analytical issues (“Broad Strokes”), familiar repertoire or concepts from a new perspective (“Second Takes”), and meanings that arise from music’s connections with other media forms (“Audiovisual Entanglements”).