Tag Archives: Music
Britpop at the BBC
To celebrate to 20th anniversary of the Britpop music scene, the BBC have various programmes and other features. These are all described, with links to podcasts, on the Britpop at the BBC site. It is taking place all week, but … Continue reading
Youth Subcultures: What are they now?
There is a really interesting piece on youth subcultures by Alexis Petridis in The Guardian. He attempts to think through the forms that subcultures take today, using examples and some reflections from sociologists. The piece raises some questions about the … Continue reading
Punk Sociology playlist on Spotify
The preface to my Punk Sociology book contains a playlist that can be listened to whilst reading chapter 2 of the book. The playlist is intended to help orientate the discussion for those who are not familiar with punk music and … Continue reading
Thinking Allowed on why music matters
I posted previously to a podcast featuring Les Back talking about the politics of music. In that podcast Les spoke about David Hesmondhalgh’s new book Why Music Matters?. A recent episode of Thinking Allowed featured David talking about his book … Continue reading
The precarious double life of the recording engineer…published online first
My article ‘The precarious double life of the recording engineer‘ has been published on the online first (or latest articles) section of the Journal for Cultural Research. It will be published in the actual journal in early 2014. The piece … Continue reading
More music visualisations
Some really good visualisations of music styles/genres here. This use of new types of visualisation to depict music taste really does transform how music is understood (there is a little more about this in this article).
Is music still culturally significant?
In a recent interview with the NME Bobby Gillespie, the long-time singer in the just about evergreen band Primal Scream, said this: “I don’t think a rock’n’roll record is gonna cause any huge social upheavals. I don’t think that’s on … Continue reading
The hidden dimensions of the musical field and the potential of the new social data
The article ‘The hidden dimensions of the musical field and the potential of the new social data‘, which I co-wrote with Mark Taylor, has now been published (open access) in the current issue of Sociological Research Online. In this piece … Continue reading
Music, taste and digital data
I’ve been trying to think about how digital data of different sorts can be used to find out about music cultures. One of the strands of this work attempted to think about the by-product data created by the music site … Continue reading
Music and urban geography
At the moment I’m working on a piece that responds to Adam Krims’ book Music and Urban Geography. It will hopefully appear in an early issue of the exciting new Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. I’ve been asked to write … Continue reading
Thinking culture 