Popular Music Studies Book

	List of contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Popular music studies: meaning, power and value	1
Sect. I	Musical meaning and history	11
1	Music, masculinity and migrancy under early apartheid: gender and popular song in South Africa, c. 1948-1960	16
2	Analysing popular songs	33
3	Cover versions and the sound of identity in motion	51
4	(In search of) musical meaning: genres, categories and crossover	65
Sect. II	Audiences, consumption and everyday life	85
5	Raving, not drowning: authenticity, pleasure and politics in the electronic dance music scene	90
6	The curse of fandom: insiders, outsiders and ethnography	103
7	Popular music audiences and everyday life	117
8	Ubiquitous listening	131
Sect. III	Production, institutions and creativity	143
9	Mainstreaming, from hegemonic centre to global networks	149
10	Value and velocity: the 12-inch single as medium and artifact	164
11	Creativity and musical experience	178
12	The politics of calypso in a world of music industries	191
Sect. IV	Place, space and power	205
13	Locating salsa	210
14	Blacking Japanese: experiencing otherness from afar	223
15	India song: popular music genres since economic liberalization	238
16	The 'pop-rockization' of popular music	251
	Index	265