Producing Pop Culture and Conflict in the Popular Music Industry by KeithNegus Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1993 by Hodder Education Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-340-57512-3, ISBN: 0-340-57512-3
"Producing Pop provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes analysis of one of the world's major entertainment industries. Focusing on the contribution of recording industry personnel, it challenges the simplistic assumption that pop music is merely determined by corporate financial interests, and argues against writers who portray the music business as a cultural assembly line."
"Introduces students to the most significant debates in the field, offering fresh perspectives and suggesting new directions. Genuinely interdisciplinary on scope, the book outlines the history and development of popular music studies while offering and unprecedentedly international perspective on popular music, featuring writers from North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Combining insights fro ..."
"34 In reading my account of corporate strategies in the music industry, you
should bear in mind the cautionary note of Bob De Wit and Ron Meyer, who have
remarked that many 'companies seldom formulate and publish a complete
strategy statement', and they also note that what 'sometimes gives the
appearance of a consciously formulated strategy... may be the natural result of
compromise among coalitions backing contrary policy proposal ..."
"These arguments are fair enough – it's something of a sociological commonplace to de-emphasise the individual creator ... But this type of shift sets in play a movement away from the creativity of artists and towards the creativity of industries."
"Popular Music in Theory provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical issues which arise in the study of contemporary popular music. The book is organized in a way that shows how popular music is created across a series of relationships that link together industry and audiences, producers and consumers. Starting from the dichotomy between production and consumption which characterizes much work on popular culture, Keith Negus ..."
"This book remains the perfect 'how to' for cultural studies. It is an essential classic, reworked for today's students in cultural studies, media studies and sociology."
Shot from Both Sides Musicians on Television by KeithNegus, Goldsmiths' College Paperback, 21 Pages, Published 2005 by Goldsmiths, University Of London Import ISBN-13: 978-1-904158-62-2, ISBN: 1-904158-62-5
"For Becker, such examples highlight how a large part of the daily creative work
within art worlds entails 'editing', and this editing involves choices - choices made
by artists and by the many people who participate in these choices. This does ..."
Popular Music in Theory An Introduction by KeithNegus Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 1996 by Polity Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-1317-8, ISBN: 0-7456-1317-9
"This book is organized in a way that shows how popular music is created across a series of relationships that link together industry and audiences, producers and consumers."
""Arguably the most famous book in its field... In theoretical terms, the legacy of Doing Cultural Studies confirms that this classic read is not just about the Walkman itself, but represents a series of clear observations about the symbolic meanings of culture." - LSE Review of Books Why think about the Walkman in the 21st century? Can the Walkman help us understand today’s media and cultural practices? Through the notion of the ′circu ..."
Bob Dylan (Icons of Pop Music) by Professor KeithNegus, Dr KeithNegus Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22005-9, ISBN: 0-253-22005-X