A Popular Music Reader

A Popular Music Reader includes a wide range of writing, from newspapers and books, to blogs and academic journals by performers, critics, and scholars. Both classic and contemporarytopics are covered, allowing students the opportunity toexamine important issues in popular music studiesincluding:taste and authenticity, history and style, the music business, technology, lyrics, race, gender and censorship. Most importantlythis reader givesstudents the chance to explore and study (not to mention enjoy) some of the fine writing motivated by pop.