Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies provides a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. Alongside contributions from key thinkers already established in popular music studies, the strength of the collection lies in its inclusion of many new and emerging writers in the field. Therefore, the collection incorporates a wide range of practitioners, pedagogues and academics from an extensive range of disciplines, and thus drawing from a diversity of methodological approaches. These include those that are perhaps more established, such as semiotics, ethnography and psychology, alongside exciting new approaches within popular music, including eco-musicology, religion, intersectionality and archeology. Although previous books have provided an overall of concepts studied within popular music studies, this will be the first comprehensive Handbook of popular music methodologies.

Mike Dines is a British musician, writer, scholar and publisher. As co-founder, and Chair, of the Punk Scholars Network, Mike has published widely in the field of punk (specifically the sub-genre Krishnacore), subcultures (specifically the New Age traveller Movement), popular music and spirituality.Shara Rambarran, author of Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era,  is a musicologist and senior lecturer in music, business and media at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research interests include music innovation, virtuality/digital cultures, technology, remixology, music production, audio-visual aesthetics, music/creative industries, music education, and law. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education, and DIVA: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop, and is involved with the Art of Record Production conferences and journal. Shara is also the musicologist for Spotify’s award-winning Decode music podcast.Gareth Dylan Smith is Assistant Professor of Music and Music Education at Boston University. His first love is to play drums, and his writing and research interests include drumming, punk pedagogy, popular music education and the sociology of music education.