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Volume I: Media, Industry and Society
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This volume contains two major sections: ‘Social and Cultural Dimensions’ and ‘The Industry’. The former contains many entries on social phenomena of relevance to the practise of popular music : entries such as class, deviance, fashion, gender and sexuality, love and courtship, politics, race, religion, spirituality, and youth. It also includes entries on three other sets of phenomena that provide contexts for the practise of popular music: institutions and practises that document popular music; the study of popular music; and stylistic and textual practices that are not themselves musical in nature. Thus, for example, this section covers disciplines and trajectories (for example, poststructuralism) that have contributed to research and publication on popular music.

The section on ‘The Industry’ contains numerous entries on recording studios, music publishers, record labels, many of which are of historical importance. For reasons of historical documentation, the sheet music listings, discographical references and discographies for these entries contain the first publication details of songs and recordings. However, to assist readers in hearing this music where possible, reference is also frequently made to reissues of older recordings on compact disc. This section also covers the broadcasting media, copyright issues, audio-technical and other hardware terms.

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‘This is an extraordinary achievement and it will become an absolutely vital and trusted resource for everyone working in the field of popular music studies. Even more broadly, anyone interested in popular music or popular music culture more generally will enjoy – and find many uses for – the wealth of information and insight captured in this volume,’


Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

‘This is a fabulous book. It will be indispensable to students of popular music not only as the ultimate work of reference, but also as a good read. Start browsing and it is almost impossible to stop!’

Professor Simon Frith, Department of Film and Media, University of Stirling


Contents

Arrangement of the Material

PART 1: SOCIAL & CULTURAL DIMENSIONS

1. Documentation
Archives; Bibliographies; Biography/Autobiography; Discography; Electronic Information; Encyclopedias; Field Recording; Film and Television Documentaries; Halls of Fame/Museums; Histories; Music Press; Popular Music Journals; Song Collecting

2. Popular Music Studies
African-American Studies; Anthropology; Black Studies; Communication (Communication Studies); Content Analysis; Cultural Studies; Dialogics; Discourse Analysis; Economics; Ethnomusicology (click here to view sample entry); Feminism; Folklore; Geography; History; Literary Criticism; Music Analysis; Musicology; Music Theory; Political Economy; Political Theory; Postcolonialism; Postmodernism; Poststructuralism; Psychoanalysis; Reception and Consumption Theory; Semiology/Semiotics; Sociology; Structural Homology; Structuralism; Women’s Studies

3. Social Phenomena
Alcohol; Art and Art Schools; Artifice; Audience; Authenticity; Carnival; Censorship; Charity Events; Children; Class; Club Culture; Commercialism/Commercialization; Community; Consumption; Crime; Cultural Imperialism; Cultural Policy/Regulation; Death; Deviance; Disasters and Accidents; Drugs and Addiction; Ethnicity and Race; Exoticism; Fans; Fanzines; Fascism; Fashion; Gender and Sexuality; Groupies; Heritage; Hybridity and Globalization (Intercultural Exchange, Acculturation); Identity; Illness, Injury and Disease; Industrialization; Journalistic Practises; Kinship; Law; Locality; Love and Courtship; Migration and Diffusion; Morality; Moral Panic; Music Festivals; Myth; Nationalism; Nostalgia; Obscenity; Photography; Politics; Popularity; Popular Music Criticism; Popular Music Education; Popular Music in Advertising; Popular Music in Film; Pornography; Propaganda; Radio; Rave Culture; Record Collecting; Religion and Spirituality; Resistance and Protest; Revivals; Scene (Location); Slavery; Socialism and Communism; Soundcarrier; Sport; Strardom; The State; Subculture; Taste; Television; The Theater; Tourism; Urbanization; War and Armed Conflict; Youth

4. Stylistic and Textual Dimensions

Genre; Humor; Iconography; Signifying; Sound (Local); Spectacle; Style

5. Venues

PART II: THE INDUSTRY


6. General Terms
Media; Music Industry; Reproduction

7. Audio Technical Terms
Frame; Hi-Fi (FFRR); Mono; Quadraphonic; Stereo; White Noise

8. Broadcasting
Airplay; AM; American Bandstand (click here to view sample entry); American Forces Network; Broadcasting; Eurovision Song Contest; FM; Grand Ole Opry; King Biscuit Time; Make-Believe Ballroom; MTV; Pirate Radio; Playlist; Programming; Radio; Radio Format; Radio France International; Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; Radio Luxembourg; Radio Shows; Talent Shows; Television; Television Shows; Transcription Disc; Voice of America; Your Hit Parade

9. Copyright
Author’s Right; Berne Convention; Bootleg; Copyright; Copyright Organizations; Counterfeit; Geneva Convention; Home Taping; Mechanical Right; Moral Right; Neighboring Rights; Performing Right; Piracy; Public Domain; Rental Right; Rome Convention; Royalty

10. Deals and Contracts
Contracts; Lawsuits; Licensing

11. The Film Industry and Popular Music
The Film Industry and Popular Music

12. Hardware
Acetate; Amplifier; Cassette; Cassette Recorder; Compact Disc; Cylinders; DAT; Digital Compact Cassette; Eight-Track Cartridge; Gramophone; Headphone; Jukebox; Laser Disc; Loudspeaker; Megaphone; Minidisc; Phonograph; Radio Receiver; Record; Shellac; Solid State; Stylus; Tape; Tape Recorder; Video Disc; Video Games; Vinyl; Walkman

13. Instrument Manufacture

14. Management and Marketing
A&R; Act; Advertising of Popular Music; Agent; Awards; Catalog; Charts; Circuit; Concert Promotion; Distribution; E-commerce; Gig; Hit; Impresario; Management; Manager; Market; Marketing; Market Research; Oldie; One-hit Wonder; One-Stop; On-Line Distribution; Payola; Plant; Plugging; Polls; Promoter; Rack Jobber; Ratings; Record Clubs; Retailing; Roadies; Sponsorship; Talent Scout; Tour; Trade Fairs; Trade Organizations; Trade Press

15. Publishing

Broadside; Chapbook; Fake Book; Hymnals
Music Publishers
Acuff-Rose Music; Campbell Connelly; Chappell & Co.; Oliver Ditson & Co.; Leo Feist Music Publishing Co.; T.B. Harms
Hill & Range; Howley, Haviland & Co.; Jobete Music; Leeds Music Corp.; E.B. Marks; Mills Music; Northern Songs; Jerome M. Remick & Co.; The Richmond Organization; Robbins Music Corp.; Root & Cady; Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer; Southern Music (incl. Peermusic); M. Witmark & Co.; Lawrence Wright Music Co.

Music Publishing; Sheet Music; Songbook; Songsheet Covers; Songster (1)

16. Recording

Album; Album Cover; A Side; B Side; Concept Album; Cover Version; Digital Recording; EP; Home Recording; Independent; Label; Live Album; LP; Major; Matrix; Music Video; Phonogram; Picture Disc; Production; Record Companies; Record Company; Record Corporations: BMG; EMI, Polygram, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group; Record Industry; Recording Studio
Recording Studios
Abbey Road Studios (UK); AIR Studios (UK); Atlantic Studios (US); Bearsville Studios (US); Black Ark (Jamaica); Bokoor Recording Studio (Ghana); Bradley Film and Recording Studios/Bradley’s Barn (US); Brown Radio Productions (US);
Buck Owens Recording Studio (US); Capitol Studios (US); Castle Recording Laboratory (US); Chess Studios (US) (click here to view sample entry); Companhia dos Técnicos (Brazil); Compass Point (The Bahamas); Davout Studios (France); DownTown Studios (South Africa); The Drive-In (US); Dynamic Sounds (Jamaica); EGREM (Cuba); Eldorado (Brazil); EMI Studios (Powerhouse Studios) (South Africa); Englewood Cliffs Studios (US); Estúdios Centauro (Nicaragua); Estúdios ENIGRAC (Nicaragua); Estúdios Mosh (Brazil); Finnvox (Finland); Gary Paxton Sound Services Inc. (US); Grant Avenue Studio (Canada); Guillaume Tell Studios (France); Harry J Studios (Jamaica); Keisar Studios (Israel); Kirios (Spain); The Manor (UK); Mosi Oa Tunya Studios (Zimbabwe); Muscle Shoals Sound (US); Nimbus 9 Studio (Canada); Norman Petty Recording Studio (US); Paisley Park (US); The Plant (US); Polar Studios (Sweden); Rockfield Studios (UK); Shed Studios (Zimbabwe); Shifty Studios (South Africa); Sigma Sound Studios (US); Smart Studios (US); Stax Studio (US); Strawberry Studios (UK); Studio B. Mastering (US); Studio 99 (Liberia); Studio One (Jamaica); Sun Studio (Memphis Recording Studio) (US); Tally Recording Studio (US); Tambourine Studios (Sweden); Tamla Motown Studios (US); Treasure Isle (Jamaica); Triton Studios (Israel); Wally Heider Recording Studio (US); The West Orange Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison (US); Windmill Lane Recording Studios (Ireland); WR Studio (Brazil)

Record Labels/Companies
A&M (US); Alerce (Chile); Apple (UK); ARC (US); Arcade (The Netherlands); Arhoolie (US); Ariola (Germany); Arista Records (US); Atlantic (US); Avex Trax (Japan); Balkanton (Bulgaria); Barclay (France); Belter (Spain); Black Saint/Soul Note (Italy);Bluebird (US); Blue Note Records (US); Boucherie Productions (France); Brunswick Records (US); Capitol Records (US); Capricorn (US); Carl Lindström AG (Germany); Casa Edson (Brazil); CBS-Sony (Japan); CEFA (DRC); Celluloïd (France); CGD (Italy); Chess (US); Chrysalis (UK); Columbia (US); Decca (UK); Decca (US); Decca (West Africa); Def Jam (US); Denon (Japan);
DICAP (Chile); Dischi Ricordi (Italy); Discos Andino (Nicaragua); Discos Fuentes (Colombia); Document (Austria); Duke/Peacock (US); ECM Records (Germany); edel music AG (Germany); Edison (US) (1910-1929); Elektra Records (US); Elenco (Brazil); EMI/HMV (Africa); ENIGRAC (Nicaragua); Essiebons (Ghana); Factory Records (UK); Fania (US); Fazer (Finland); Festival (Australia); Flying Nun (New Zealand); Folkways Records(US); Fonovisa (Mexico); Gael-Linn (Ireland); Gallo (South Africa); Geffen Records (US); Gennett Records (US); Gramco (India); Gramophone Co. (UK); Hispavox (Spain); HMV (UK/US); Hungaroton (Hungary); Ice (Caribbean); Impusle! (US); Intercord Tonträger GmbH (Germany); Island Records (UK); Jambo (East Africa); Jive (UK); King (US); K-Tel (US/UK); LaFace (US); Liberty (US); Library of Congress Recordings (US); Loningisa (DRC); Max Music (Spain); Mega Records (Denmark); Melodiya (USSR); Mercury Records (US); Metronome (Sweden); MGM Records (US); Milan (France); Minos (Greece); MNW Records (Sweden); Monitor-EMI (Czech Republic); Motown (Tamla Motown) (US); Mushroom (Australia); Mute (UK); The National Phonograph Co. (US); Ngoma (DRC); Nipponophone (Nippon Columbia ) (Japan); Odeon (Germany); OKeh (US); Pacific Jazz/World Pacific (US); Paramount (US); Parlophone (Parlophon (UK/Germany); Pathé (France); Philles Records (US); Play It Again Sam (Belgium); Pony Canyon (Japan); Prestidge (US); Priority (US);
Private Music (US); Regal Zonophone (UK/Australia); Reprise Records (US); Riverside(US); Rock Records (Taiwan); Rodven (Venezuela); Rosebud (France); Rough Trade Records (UK); Rounder Records (US); Rykodisc (US); Savoy (US);
Sire (US); Smithsonian Institution Recordings (US); Sonet (Sweden); Sonolux (Colombia); Speciality (US); Stax Records (US); Stiff Records (UK); Sun Records (US); Supraphon (Czech Republic); Swaggie (Australia); Syliphone (Guinea); Syllart (Senegal); Tabansi (Nigeria); Telefunken (Germany); Tommy Boy (US); 2-Tone (UK); ULO (Greenland); Vanguard (US); V-Disc (US); Vee-Jay (US); Verve (US); Victor (Japan); Victor (US); Virgin (UK); Vocalion Records (US); Vogue (France); Windham Hill (US); Word (US); Yazoo (US); Zafiro (Serdisco) (Spain); ZTT (UK); Zyx Music (Germany)

Record Manufacture; rpm; 78; Single; Sleeve Note; Soundcarrier; Soundie; Videoclip

17. Unions
Musicians’ Unions; Unions


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