New book Ageing and Youth Cultures: Music, Style and Identity Edited by Andy Bennett and Paul Hodkinson What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research on spectacular ‘youth cultures’ has understood such groups as adolescent phenomena and assumed that involvement ceases with [...]

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New journal issue ‘Erotic Screen & Sound’ A special edition of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 26(4) Edited by Jodie Taylor and David Baker Sexual desire and the intent to arouse—the erotic—is ubiquitous. Erotic impulses preoccupy our psyches, shape our identities, inscribe our bodies and mediate our relationships with others and objects. Proliferating [...]

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New book Redefining Mainstream Popular Music Edited by Sarah Baker, Andy Bennett and Jodie Taylor Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen essays that critically examines the idea of the “mainstream” in and across a variety of popular music styles and contexts. Notions of what is popular vary across generations and cultures – [...]

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New book Music, Style, and Aging: Growing Old Disgracefully? Andy Bennett The image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. In his timely book, Music, Style, and Aging, cultural sociologist Andy Bennett explains how people move on from youth and effectively grow older with popular [...]

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New book Music, Politics, and Violence Edited by Susan Fast and Kip Pegley Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art. Considered together they raise fundamental questions about creativity, discourse, and music’s role in society. The essays in this collection investigate a wealth of issues surrounding music and violence – [...]

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Dancecult 4 (2) Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture http://dj.dancecult.net Dancecult Issue 4 (2) is now live.

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New publication Music, Business and Law: Essays on contemporary trends in the music industry Edited by Antti-Ville Kärjä, Lee Marshall and Johannes Brusila IASPM-Norden & IIPC Available online at http://iipc.utu.fi/MBL/ and in print format early next year through IASPM-Norden (iaspmnorden.wordpress.com).

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New book Out of the Absurdity of Life – Globale Musik Thomas Burkhalter and Theresa Beyer The first book of norient (network for local and global sounds and media culture – www.norient.com), edited by Thomas Burkhalter and Theresa Beyer, discusses contemporary movements and trends within globalised music scenes in Europe, Africa, Latin-America, Asia and the [...]

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Australian Recording Sector Report Australia Council Associate Professor Shane Homan The Australia Council recently commissioned a report by IASPM member Associate Professor Shane Homan on the needs of the Australian recording sector, which you can find here.

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New publication Volume! Popular Music and Countercultures The first issue of the French edition of “Popular Music and Countercultures” is now out and online. Table of contents (with texts by Sheila Whiteley, Andy Bennett, Simon Warner, Giovanni Vacca, etc.): http://www.cairn.info/revue-volume-2012-1.htm To purchase/subscribe from beyond France: http://volume.revues.org/1643 An English version of this issue will be published, [...]

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