Popular music and the state in the UK : culture, trade or industry? / Martin Cloonan
Martin Cloonan examines why politicians and policymakers in the UK have sought to intervene in popular music. The author traces the development of government attitudes and policies towards popular music from the 1950s to the present, discovering the prominence of two overlapping concerns: public order and the political economy of music.
Performing class in British popular music / Nathan Wiseman-Trowse
Performing Class in British Popular Music examines the role that class signification plays in popular music in the UK, from folk music through to the present day. Rather than seeing class as a purely social or economic concept, Nathan Wiseman-Trowse understands it as a mythological concept that is constructed through the musical text in order to assure the listener of the authenticity of a piece of pop music
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