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Banks, Jack (1997), 'MTV and the globalization of popular culture', Gazette 59(1). The role of MTV in fostering and exploiting an international youth culture.

Banks, Jack (1998), 'Video in the machine: the incorporation of music video into the recording industry', Popular Music 16/3. The influence of the music video and MTV , and further concentration of power, in contemporary popular music.

Bannister, Matthew (2000), `What more can a poor boy do? Concepts of Pakeha masculinity in New Zealand rock music', Perfect Beat 5.1, July. Bannister writes from experience (from his time with Sneaky Feelings) about a dominant thread in local music. Good to see such a blend of theory and practice.

Barber, Lynden (1997), 'Decomposing rock', Weekend Australian Oct 11-12. Argues that record companies releasing 'new' songs by dead artists is 'merely a form of musical necrophilia'.

Barnett, Antony (1996), 'Who calls the tune?', New Zealand Herald March 9. Ownership and control in the British music industry (from The Observer).

Bowles, Scott (1997), 'For the record: a vinyl revival', Washington Post Feb 10. How vinyl albums are making some kind of come-back against CDs.

Breen, Marcus (1995), 'The end of the world as we know it: popular music's cultural mobility', Cultural Studies 9(3). Applies research and analysis methods developed in institutional economics to patterns of ownership and control in contemporary popular music.

Breen, Marcus (1998), 'Evolving at speed: theorizing popular music in the digital age', Society and Leisure 21:1. A complex analysis that argues for a significant transformation in the consumption of poular music, 'moving from mass consumption to electronically mediated, singular, domesticated engagement'.

Buchanan, Ian (1997), 'Deleuze and popular music, or, Why is there so much 80s music on radio today?', Social Semiotics 7:2. Using Deleuze to explain why people 'want to listen to the same song over and over again'

Capling,Ann (1996), 'Gimme Shelter', arena magazine 21 Feb/March. Globalisation and Australian popular music.

Carrabine, Eamonn & Brian Longhurst (1999), 'Mosaics of omnivorousness: suburban youth and popular music', New Formations. Argues that the prevailing 'Incorporation/Resistance' paradigm used by cultural studies in studying popular music ought to be replaced by a Spectacle/Performance paradigm.

Chunn, Mike (1998), 'Give us NZ songs to sing', The Dominion July 13. Predicts diaster for the New Zealand music industry in wake of the repeal of parallel import restrictions.

The Cult of the DJ: A Symposium. Social Text 43, Fall 1995. A panel discuusion from a 1994 conference A to the K: New Directions in Popular Music. Interesting stuff!

Dettmar, Kevin J.H. (1998),'An introduction to postmodernism: just let them hear some of that rock 'n' roll music', The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept 25. Teaching popular music to undergraduates.

Elder, Bruce (1997), 'Pop goes everywhere', New Zealand Herald Oct 25. An Australian music critic argues that pop music is 'the pre-eminent artistic form of the 20th century'.

Este, Jonathan (1997), 'Rock dinosaurs defy extinction', The Australian Aug 20. The detritus of rock'n'roll history.

Frank, Thomas (1998), 'Variations on a descending theme: pop music in the shadow of irony', Harper's Magazine March. Incursions of high-brow thinking in popular music.

Gibbons, Fiachra (1999), 'Pop scene plays the pre-teen card', The Guardian Oct 14. The manufacturing of pre-teen pop bands in the UK.

Gow, Joe (1996), 'Reconsidering gender roles on MTV: depictions in the most popular music videos of the early 1990s', Communication Reports 9:2, Summer. Argues that music videos still under-represent and misrepresent women.

Hakanen, Ernest A. (1998), Counting down to number one: the evolution of the meaning of popular music charts', Popular Music 17/1. How pop charts are more to do with marketing than popular taste.

Jensen, Jeff (1999), `Everything you wanrted to know about MP3', Entertainment Weekly March 12. Downloading music from the Internet.

Jinman, Richard (1997), 'Pop is dead, long live pop', The Australian Magazine Feb 15-16. A retort to the misplaced attacks on popular music by right-wing British philosopher Roger Scruton.

Jones, Mike (1999), `Changing slides - Labour's music industry policy under the microscope', CQ 41:1. Cultural policy and New Labour in Britain.

Jones, Steve (2000), `Music and the Internet', Popular Music 19/2. New ways of producing and distributing popular music.

Megalogenis, George (1997), 'Industry discord', Weekend Australian Oct 25-26. Disputes in the Australian music industry over the deregulation of the CD market.

Mitchell, Tony & R. Shuker (1998), `Moral panics, national pride and split images: music and the press in Aotearoa/New Zealand', Pefect Beat 3/4. A very interesting investigation of music/print relationships in New Zealand.

Mitchell, Tony & Roy Shuker (1997), 'Music scenes and national identity: popular music and the press in Aotearoa/New Zealand', New Zealand Sociology 12 (1), May. An excellent example of cross-Tasman cooperation in media research, in a study of the links between popular music and print media in New Zealand. 'Music makers play for TV time', Broadcasting & Cable September 1 1997. Music on US cable television.

Rawsthorn, Alice (1997), 'What I wanna, wanna, really wannabe', National Business Review Oct 24. Asks 'how long can the Spice Girls maintain their phenomenal sales record?' It would seem for at least another few months, if the merchandising associated with Spice World is any indication.

Scott,Jody (1997), 'Golden oldies retain pulling power at top of the all-time pop chart', The Weekend Australian July 5-6. The Seekers and John Farnham still top tables of top-selling Aussie albums.

Scott, Jody (19990, 'Rock icons, buyers click', The Australian Nov 3. Who buys CDs via the Web in Australia.

Shedden, Iain (1998), 'Chart choppers', The Australian July 8. How the pop charts persist, to encourage record sales.

Sheddon, Iain (2000), `Belting out the national anthem', The Weekend Australian May 20-21. Trying to define the 'essence of Australian songwriting'.

Sly, Lesley (1998), 'The X in success', The Bulletin Oct 27. Winners and losers in the Australian music scene.

Stewart, Cameron (1997), 'Elvis gets a facelift', The Australian Magazine (The Weekend Australian), July 5-6. Describes attempts to 'clean-up' the image of Elvis by something called Elvis Presley Enterprises.

Strauss, Neil (2000), `Recording industry's strictest censor is itself', New York Times August 1. Self-censorship of contentious material in the US music industry.

Wilson-Brown, Carrie & Cameron McCarthy (1995), 'The organization of affect: popular music, youth and intellectual and political life--an interview with Larry Grossberg', Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education 16:3. A renowned figure in cultural studies ponders on music, life and meaning.


        

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