Sounds of then, sounds of now
Popular music in Australia
Edited by Shane Homan and Tony Mitchell
Hobart: ACYS Publishing, June 2008
In Sounds of then, sounds of now: Popular music in Australia some of the country’s most respected popular music researchers, musicians and music journalists document a range of past and present Australian sounds and scenes.
The collection maps [...]

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The latest issue of Cultural Politics has just been published:
The Voice of the People? Musicians as Political Actors
Seth Hague, John Street, and Heather Savigny on Bob Geldof, Live 8 and the legacies of Rock Against Racism
Making Space: Image-Events in an Extreme State
Johanna Drucker asks whether in our image-saturated culture works of imaginative art can have [...]

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New Publication Series on Popular Culture
Vol 1. History of Stardom Reconsidered
The International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC) is happy to announce the launching of a new refereed online series on popular culture. It publishes monographs, edited collections and conference proceedings, and it is open for all scholars of the field.
The first volume History of Stardom [...]

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Sergio and I are pleased to announce a new group blog on (post) Soviet popular music:
http://ps-popular-music.blogspot.com/
The blog is bilingual with posts both in Russian and English (or sometimes both – depending on the author). We define popular music in a broad sense, in other words anything from rock to pop.  Geographically we also include the [...]

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TRANS  11 (2007)  is on-line now with a special issue devoted to African music, that includes articles by Simha Arom, Polo Vallejo, Nathalie Fernando, Ruth M. Stone, Willie Anku, Leonardo D’Amico, Michelle Kisliuk, Kofi Agawu, Andrew L. Kaye y Marcos Branda Lacerda. This issue is matched with  some studies about the African influence in popular [...]

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