The Popular Music Studies Reader Edited by Andy Bennett, Barry Shank and Jason Toynbee The Popular Music Studies Reader brings together classic texts and essential new writings on popular music. The Reader places popular music in its cultural context, looks at the significance of popular music in our everyday lives and examines the global nature of the music industry. The Reader maps the changing nature of popular music over the last decade and considers how popular music studies has expanded and developed to deal with these changes. Articles discuss the increasing participation of women in the industry and the changing role of gender and sexuality in popular music, the role of new technologies, especially in production and distribution, and the changing nature of the relationship between music production and consumption. The Reader is divided into parts, each with an introduction by the editors. The parts are: * Music as Sound, Music as text * Making Music * Subcultures, Scenes and tribes * Popular Music and Everyday Life * Musical Diasporas * Music Industry * Popular Music and Technology * Popular Music Media * Popular Music, Gender and Sexuality Andy Bennett is Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University, Canada. He is the author of Cultures of Popular Music (2001), and Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and place (2000). Barry Shank is Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Dissonant Identities: The Rock' n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas (1994). Jason Toynbee is Lecturer in Media Studies at The Open University. He is the author of Making Popular Music: Musicians, Creativity and Institutions (2000)