[ecrea] Announcing new book series: Popular musics matter: social, political and cultural interventions

Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions

Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane and Martin J. Power

The Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions 
series will publish internationally informed edited collections, 
monographs and textbooks which engage in the critical study of popular 
music performances (live and recorded), historical and contemporary 
popular music practitioners and artists, and participants and audiences 
for whom such musics embody aesthetic, cultural and particularly 
socio-political values. The series sees music not only as a 
manifestation of global popular culture, but also as a form that 
profoundly shapes and continually seeks to redefine our understandings 
of how society operates in a given location and era.

This series is edited by an eponymous interdisciplinary research cluster 
located at the University of Limerick, Ireland, which provides a 
platform for researchers working within a range of disciplines to come 
together to advance their shared interest in the critical analysis of 
popular music(s) and the elucidation of their social meaning, 
significance and material impacts. The publication records of the series 
editors – Professor Eoin Devereux and Drs Aileen Dillane and Martin J. 
Power – reflects the interdisciplinarity of the endeavour. The editors 
have previously published books on David Bowie and Morrissey for example.

Theoretically, books in this series are envisaged as:
• Interrogating the potential of popular music to both foreclose and 
promote alternative / hegemonic frameworks of understanding within the 
public consciousness.
• Analysing the creative processes and outputs in terms of the social, 
political and historical moment in which popular music is produced.
• Extending discussion of live and recorded performances of popular 
music within critical reception theory frameworks and fandom studies as 
a means of appreciating consumption as a form of secondary production 
(prosumption) and creation.
• Honouring, but also moving beyond the Anglo-American hegemony evident 
in the majority of Popular Music Studies.

Empirically, the series editors are particularly interested in 
publishing work which:
• Engages with the politics of performance, production, consumption and 
circulation that is informed by fieldwork and ethnography.
• Seeks to synthesise critically engaged musicological analysis with 
deeply textured and nuanced readings of the broader socio-cultural 
context from which popular music(s) emerge.
• Includes popular music genres from different geographic locations and 
epochs in order to broaden discussions of the role that popular music 
plays in shaping and (re)defining our understandings of how society 
operates.

Methodologically, the series will welcome texts which:
• Address key ontological and epistemological debates within the broad 
field of popular musics analysis of societal issues.
• Provide new and creative ways of interrogating popular musics that 
blends close textual and textural analysis of performances with 
approaches informed by fieldwork and ethnography.
• Map different approaches to the analysis of popular music ‘texts’ by 
modelling interdisciplinary approaches that also view music/songs as 
‘process’ in the elucidations of social meaning.

This interdisciplinary series will include texts located in sociology, 
(ethno)musicology, cultural studies, political science, 
socio-linguistics, media and communication studies, musicology, social 
psychology, psychoanalysis, semiotics, postcolonial studies, feminism, 
gender studies, and queer studies and more. A range of theoretical 
perspectives are anticipated, including but not limited to critical 
theory and cultural theory, music and ethnography, performance theory, 
sociology of music, musical semiotics, queer theory, transnational 
theory, music and hybridity and migration theory.

*Please send proposals to the series editors at (popmusicandculture /at/ ul.ie)*

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