Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 1 Media, Industry, Society: Volume I

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John Shepherd
Bloomsbury Academic, 2003 M01 30 - 832 pages

‘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 music 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

The first comprehensive reference work on popular music of the world

Contributors are the world's leading popular music scholars

Includes extensive bibliographies, discographies, sheet music listings and filmographies.

Popular music has been a major force in the world since the nineteenth century. With the advent of electronic and advanced technology it has become ubiquitous. This is the first volume in a series of encyclopedic works covering popular music of the world. Consisting of some 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world. Entries range between 250 and 5000 words, and is arranged in two Parts: Part 1: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covering the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music. Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.



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Contents

General Terms
429
Audio Technical Terms
437
Copyright
480
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About the author (2003)

John Shepherd is Chancellor's Professor of music and sociology, and Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University, ON. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music (Cambridge University Press, 1981+), and a founding member of IASPM (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music). He was Director of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. Together with the blues scholar Paul Oliver he first proposed the idea of EPMOW in the 1980s, and has worked on the project since that time. Other recent publications include two edited volumes: The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (with Mervyn Cooke, 2002),and a special issue of Popular Music in honour of Paul Oliver (2006).

Bibliographic information

TitleContinuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 1 Media, Industry, Society: Volume I
Volume 1 of Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Volume 1: Media, Industry and Society, John Shepherd
Volume 1 of Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, John Shepherd
EditorJohn Shepherd
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2003
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized4 Sep 2009
ISBN0826463215, 9780826463210
Length832 pages
  
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