A critical analysis of issues and approaches in a variety of areas, ranging from the political economy of popular music through its history and ethnography to its semiology, aesthetics and ideology. The book focuses on Anglo-American popular music of the
Part 1 Charting the popular - towards a historical framework: roll over Beethoven? - sites and soundings on the music; historical map; its all over now; popular music and mass culture - Adornos theory; over the rainbow? - technology, politics and popular