The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture provides a comprehensive and fully up-to-date overview of key themes and debates relating to the academic study of popular music and youth culture. While this is a highly popular and rapidly expanding field of research, there currently exists no single-source reference book for those interested in this topic. The handbook is comprised of 32 original chapters written by leading authors in the field of popular music and youth culture and covers a range of topics including: theory; method; historical perspectives; genre; audience; media; globalization; ageing and generation.>

About the author

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Griffith University, Australia. He is Co-founder of the British Sociological Association’s Youth Study Group and Faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, USA. He is the former editor-in-chief of Journal of Sociology and author or editor of Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and Place (2000), Cultures of Popular Music (2001), Culture and Everyday Life (2005), Music, Style and Aging (2013) and DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes (2018) (edited with Paula Guerra).

Product details

• Authors: Andy Bennett
• Assisted by: Andy Bennett (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2025
• EAN: 9798765101575
• ISBN: 9798765101575
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 246 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Music, Popular Culture, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / General, MUSIC / Reference, History of Music, Popular Music, Cultural and media studies