The Bloomsbury
Handbook of
Popular Music
Video Analysis
The Bloomsbury
Handbook of
Popular Music
Video Analysis
Edited by Lori A. Burns and
Stan Hawkins
Philip Auslander is Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States. His primary research interest is in performance, especially in relation to art, music, media, and technology. His books include Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (1999, 2008), Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (2006), and Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation (2018).
Lori Burns is Professor of Music at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her work on popular music has been published in leading journals, edited collections, and in monograph form. Recent publications include The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music (co-edited with Serge Lacasse) and chapters in The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender and The Routledge Handbook to Popular Music Analysis. She is co-editor of the Ashgate Popular Music and Folk Series and her recent research project on genre in popular music video was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (20132018).
Norma Coates is Associate Professor at Western University, Canada. Her research on popular music and identity, and popular music and television, has been published in several leading anthologies and journals of popular music topics and taught internationally. She is a former co-chair of the Sound Studies Special Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and was a visiting fellow at the International Institute of Popular Culture at the University of Turku, Finland in 2015.
Robert Michael Edwards is Lecturer at the University of Ottawa, Canada, in the areas of ancient Judaism, early Christianity, apocalypticism, and Western religions. He has researched extensively in the field of Nag Hammadi studies and early Christian martyrdom narratives. Edwards work has been published in the journal Henoch, as well as in the edited collections, La croise des chemins rvisite: quand lglise et la Synagogue se sont-elles distingues? and La littrature des questions et rponses dans lAntiquit profane et chrtienne: de lenseignement lexgse.
Karen Fournier is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan, USA, where she teaches classes in music theory, analysis, and popular music. Her work has been published widely in the area of popular music and she has contributed a volume entitled The Words and Music of Alanis Morissette to the Praeger singer-songwriter series. She is also completing a book on gender in British punk entitled Punk and Disorderly: Acting Out Gender and Class in Early British Punk.
Stan Hawkins is Professor of Musicology at the University of Oslo and Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. He is author of Settling the Pop Score (2002), The British Pop Dandy (2009), Prince: The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon (co-author Sarah Niblock, 2011), and Queerness in Pop Music (2016). Edited volumes include Music, Space and Place (co-editors Sheila Whiteley and Andy Bennett, 2005), Essays on Sound and Vision (co-editor John Richardson, 2007), Pop Music & Easy Listening (2011), Critical Musicological Reflections (2012), and The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender (2017).
Christofer Jost works as a lecturer at the Center for Popular Culture and Music at the University of Freiburg, Germany; he is also associate professor (Privatdozent) in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg. From 2003 to 2009 he was a performing and recording artist in the field of popular music, which included extensive touring in countries such as Australia, the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, as well as joint performances with the former Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flr.
Jem Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts (Film, TV, and Stage), Programme Leader for the MA in Performing Arts, and Research Co-ordinator in the Department of Performance and Dance at Buckinghamshire New University, United Kingdom. He is a practice-led researcher interrogating intermediality and memory in film, video, and live performance, and has performed and published extensively in this field. He is also an international musician writing and performing with The Lotus Eaters and The Wild Swans.
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard is Assistant Professor of film and media studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. His work focuses on music video, audiovisual studies, and audiovisual remixing. He has published several pieces on music video, film, and other audiovisual media in international journals and anthologies. He is the author of Music Video After MTV (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of the online film journal 16:9.
Marc Lafrance is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Concordia University, Canada. Informed by an intersectional approach, his research on popular music explores issues of self, body, and society and how they are bound up with the cultural politics of gender, sexuality, race, class, and ability. His work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals such as Popular Music and Society, Music Theory Online, and Twentieth-Century Music, as well as edited collections such as The Music and Culture Reader, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender, and The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter.
John McGrath is a Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He has published a monograph with Routledge entitled Samuel Beckett, Repetition and Modern Music (2018), which explores the writers extensive use of repetition alongside the responses to his work by composers such as Morton Feldman and Scott Fields.
Laura McLaren is a PhD student of musicology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests are popular music, feminist theory, music video, and digital media. She completed her MA with a specialization in womens studies at the University of Ottawa.
Tiffany Naiman is a scholar of popular music, temporality, disability studies, and the voice, and holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles, United States. Her work considers musical and cultural responses to illness, disability, and dying, while contributing to the understanding of the social significance of popular music in regard to these areas. She has also successfully built a recognized specialization in the work of David Bowie; her research on him has been published in four edited collections, and outlets such as the Washington Post have asked her for her expert commentary. She is also a DJ, electronic musician, film festival programmer, and award-winning documentary film producer.
Anna-Elena Pkkl is Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Turku, Finland, a cultural musicologist, and a performing musician with eclectic interests in music research, audiovisual studies, and performance studies. Her dissertation (2016) discussed themes of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in various music genres and her work has been published on film music and sound, Finnish popular music, and musicals and opera. As a musician, she performs in several bands and is currently working on a songwriting project.
Lisa Perrott
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