The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies

Foreword



Derek B. Scott



Acknowledgements







Introduction: Mapping the Field: Explorations in the Study of Popular Music



Shara Rambarran, Mike Dines and Gareth Dylan Smith







PART ONE: FOUNDATIONAL APPROACHES TOWARDS A MUSICOLOGY OF POPULAR MUSIC



1. Critical Popular Music Studies: Interrogating the Methodological Meanings and Discursive Politics of 'Critical' and 'Popular'



Runchao Liu and Jessica A. Schwartz



2. Methods for the Twenty-First Century: Artistic Research as a New Research Paradigm in Popular Music Studies



Michael Kahr and Wolf-Georg Zaddach



3. Theorizing Aesthetics in a Practical Musicology



Simon Zagorski-Thomas



4. Biographical Method and Interview as Techniques in Brazilian Communication and Music Studies



Caroline Govari and Adriana Amaral



5. Beyond Popular Song: Analysing Persona-Environment Relationships in Contemporary Musical Theatre



Nick Braae



6. The Cultural Imagination and Its Role in Researching Popular Music



Eleftherios Zenerian



7. Semiotics as a Mode of Popular Music Analysis and Interpretation



Brian Andrew Inglis



8. Form and Function: Deconstructing Music Graphics



Russ Bestley







PART TWO: BACK TO THE FUTURE: ARTEFACTS, ARCHAEOLOGY, ARCHIVE AND HERITAGE



9. Do-It-Together: Punk Methodologies for Researching the Heritage of Popular Music



Sarah Baker, Zelmarie Cantillon, Jennifer Chubb, Paul Graves-Brown, Suzy Harrison, Brett Lashua, Liam Maloney, Jack McNeill, Raphael Nowak, Hilary Orange, Yorgos Paschos, John Schofield and Aleen Stanton



10. Records, Subjects and Agents: Exploring Archives of Popular Music through Critical Archival Studies



Kirsty Fife



11. Issues in US Forensic Musicological Analysis of Popular Music



Dana DeVlieger



12. The Cover-Version Spectrum: Reframing the Relationship between Imitation and Transformation in Pop-Punk Cover-Versions



Rob Upton



13. Digging in the Takes: Using Archaeological Approaches to Study Popular Music History



Paul Thompson and Barkley McKay



14. Focused Musical Artefact Analysis



Carsten Wernicke and Michael Ahlers







PART THREE: EXPLORING ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES IN POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES



15. Adele Clarke's Situational Analysis and Its Potential for Popular Music Studies



Daniel Suer and Florian Heesch



16. Cosmopolitan Hubs: Glocalization and Non-Native Culture



Brokers in the Globalization of Popular Music Cultures



Tenley Martin



17. Art Gallery Drum Kit Solos, Spirituality and Practical Musicology



Gareth Dylan Smith



18. Ethnographic Methods and Ethics for Online Cultures of Popular Music



Raquel Campos Valverde



19. Internet Pop Reception as Sonic Autoethnography: Circulating Music, Story and Self Online



Iain Findlay-Walsh







PART FOUR: SEXUALITY, RACE AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN THE STUDY OF POPULAR MUSIC



20. Is It Drag? Trans Perspectives on Queering Popular Music Research



Sadie Hochman-Ruiz



21. Staying in the Field: Emotional Labour and Trauma in Popular Music Ethnography



Ryan J. Lambe



22. Representing Power through China Wind Music: The Soft and Hard Masculinities of the Nation



Na Li



23. The Conferralist Framework: Method and Application in Popular Music Studies



Hussein Boon



24. When 'Up for It' Is Not for Everyone: From Content Analysis to the Music Analysis of Sexualization Model (MAS-Model): An Approximation of Contemporary Music from a Decolonial Lens



Priscila Alvarez-Cueva







PART FIVE: APPROACHES TOWARDS A POPULAR MUSIC PEDAGOGY



25. Person-Centred Popular Music Education: Negotiating Gender, Community and Industry Expectations



Sini Timonen



26. Popular Music Education Methodologies in the United States: An Overview



Bryan Powell



27. Process-Based Pedagogies for Creative Practice Studies



Chris Whiting



28. Reflective Piano Pedagogy: Improvisation and Composition in Classical and Contemporary Repertoires



Alethea de Villiers



29. Popular Music Production: Rethinking Recording Studio Labels



Pat O'Grady







PART SIX: POPULAR MUSIC AND CONNECTEDNESS: RECOVERY STUDIES, MUSIC AUDIENCES AND SPIRITUALITY



30. Exploring Post-Subcultural Participation through a Practice-Centred Approach: The Case of the Vaporwave (Virtual) Scene



Simone Tosoni and Alessandro Ricotti



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



Adam J. Goldwyn



32. When Is a Music Audience? The Challenges of a Sociological Perspective of Music Audiences in the Platform Age



Jo Haynes and Raphael Nowak



33. Studying Religion and Popular Music



Marcus Moberg and Christopher Partridge



34. In Search of Krishna: Narrative Enquiry and the Trajectory of the Spiritual in Krishnacore



Mike Dines







PART SEVEN: THINKING AHEAD: EMERGING METHODOLOGIES IN POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES



35. Confronting Climate Change in Popular Music Texts: Nostalgia, Apocalypse, Utopia



Tore Storvold



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



Marc Brooks



37. An Ecosemiotic Approach to the Analysis of Timbre



Maria Perevedentseva



38. Research Methods in Live Electronic Music and Audio-Visual Performance



Kirsten Hermes



39. Technology, Creativity and Pop Music Production: The Case of Cantopop



Hon-Lun Helan Yang and Edmond Tsang Yik-Man



40. Studying Playlist Cultures with Qualitative Digital Methods



Alessandro Gandini and Maurizio Corbella



41. Popular Music in Esports, On and Beyond the Stage



Eulalia Febrer-Coll







Notes on Contributors



Index