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The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies

An extensive overview of popular music methodologies.

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies attempts a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. Alongside contributions from key thinkers already established in popular music studies, the strength of the collection lies in its inclusion of many new and emerging writers in the field. Therefore, the collection incorporates a wide range of practitioners, pedagogues, and academics from across the disciplines, and thus draws from a diversity of methodological approaches. As a result, this will be the first comprehensive handbook of popular music methodologies.

700 pages | 6.69 x 9.61 | © 2025

Education: Education--General Studies

Music: General Music


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Table of Contents

Runchao Liu and Jessica A. Schwartz Critical Popular Music Studies: Interrogating the Methodological Meanings and Discursive Politics of ‘Critical’ and ‘Popular’

Michael Kahr and Wolf-Georg Zaddach Methods for the 21st Century: Artistic Research as a new Research Paradigm in Popular Music Studies

Simon Zagorski-Thomas Theorising Aesthetics In A Practical Musicology

Caroline Govari and Adriana Amaral Biographical method and interview as techniques in Brazilian Communication and Music Studies

Nick Braae Beyond Popular Song: Analysing Persona-Environment Relationships in Contemporary Musical Theatre

Eleftherios Zenerian The Cultural Imagination and its Role in Researching Popular Music

Brian A. Inglis Semiotics as a mode of popular music analysis and interpretation

Russ Bestley Form and Function: Deconstructing Music Graphics

Sarah Baker et al.  Do-it-together: Punk Methodologies for Researching the Heritage of Popular Music

Kirsty Fife Records, Subjects and Agents: Exploring Archives of Popular Music Through Critical Archival Studies

Dana DeVlieger Issues in United States Forensic Musicological Analysis of Popular Music

Rob Upton The cover-version spectrum: Reframing the relationship between imitation and transformation in pop-punk cover-versions

Paul Thompson and Barkley McKay Digging in the Takes: Using Archaeological Approaches to Study Popular Music History

Michael Ahlers and Carsten Wernicke Artefact Analysis - Socio-Materiality of Music Production and Creativity

Florian Heesch and Daniel Suer Adele Clarke’s Situational Analysis and Its Potential for Popular Music Studies

Tenley Martin  Cosmopolitan Gubs: Glocalization and Non-native Culture Brokers in the Globalization of Popular Music Cultures

Gareth Dylan Smith Art Gallery Drum Kit Solos, Spirituality and Practical Musicology

Raquel Campos Ethnographic Methods and Ethics for Online Cultures of Popular Music

Iain Findlay-Walsh Internet Pop Reception as Sonic Autoethnography - Circulating Music Story and Self Online        

Sadie Hochman-Ruiz Is it Drag?: Trans Perspectives on Queering Popular Music Research

Ryan J. Lambe Staying in the Field: Emotional Labour and Trauma in Popular Music Ethnography 

Na Li Representing Power Through China Wind Music: The Soft and Hard Masculinities of the Nation

Hussein Boon The Conferralist Framework – Method and Application in Popular Musicology

Priscila Alvarez-Cueva When ‘Up for It’ Is Not for Everyone. From Content Analysis to The Music Analysis Model (MAS-Model): An Approximation of Contemporary Music From a Decolonial Lens.

Sini Timonen Person-Centered Popular Music Education: Negotiating Gender, Community and Industry Expectations

Bryan Powell   Popular Music Education Methodologies in the United States: And Overview

Chris Whiting  Process-based Pedagogies for Creative Practice Studies

Alethea De Villiers Pimp my piano pedagogy “classical” piano repertoire and contemporary piano pedagogy

Pat O’Grady Popular Music Production: Rethinking Recording Studio Labels          

Simone Tosoni and Alessandro Ricotti Exploring post-subcultural participation through a practice-centred approach: the case of the vaporwave (virtual) scene 

Adam J. Goldwyn Recovery Studies and Pop Musicology: The Twelve Steps as Lyrical, Visual, and Sonic Rhetoric

Jo Haynes and Raphaël Nowak When is a music audience? The challenges of a sociological perspective of music audiences in the platform ag

Marcus Moberg and Christopher Partridge Studying Religion and Popular Music

Mike Dines In Search of Krishna: Narrative Enquiry and the Trajectory of the Spiritual in Krishnacore

Tore Størvold Confronting Climate Change in Popular Music Texts: Nostalgia, Apocalypse, Utopia

Marc Brooks Do Meat-Eaters Dream of Vengeful Sheep? Towards a Methodology for Animal-Oriented Music Criticism

Maria Perevedentseva An Ecosemiotic Approach to the Analysis of Timbre

Kirsten Hermes Research methods in live electronic music and audio-visual performance

Hon-Lun Helan Yang and Edmond Tsang Yik-Man Technology, Creativity, and Pop Music Production: In the Case of Cantopop

Alessandro Gandini and Maurizio Corbella From Spotify to SpotiGeM: Studying Playlist Cultures with Qualitative Digital Methods 

Eulalia Febrer Coll Popular Music in Esports, On and Beyond the Stage

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