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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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