The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies

Mike Dines is a British musician, writer, scholar and publisher. As co-founder, and Chair, of the Punk Scholars Network, Mike has published widely in the field of punk (specifically the sub-genre Krishnacore), subcultures (specifically the New Age traveller Movement), popular music and spirituality. Shara Rambarran is a popular musicologist from Essex, UK. She has a number of specialisms, including remixology/post-production, digital technology, virtuality, electronica, dub, reggae, hip-hop, music production and audio-visual aesthetics. Gareth Dylan Smith is Assistant Professor of Music and Music Education at Boston University. His first love is to play drums, and his writing and research interests include drumming, punk pedagogy, popular music education and the sociology of music education.

Runchao Liu and Jessica A. Schwartz Critical Popular Music Studies: Interrogating the Methodological Meanings and Discursive Politics of ‘Critical’ and ‘Popular’



Michael Kahr and Wolf-Georg Zaddach Methods for the 21st Century: Artistic Research as a new Research Paradigm in Popular Music Studies



Simon Zagorski-Thomas Theorising Aesthetics In A Practical Musicology



Caroline Govari and Adriana Amaral Biographical method and interview as techniques in Brazilian Communication and Music Studies



Nick Braae Beyond Popular Song: Analysing Persona-Environment Relationships in Contemporary Musical Theatre



Eleftherios Zenerian The Cultural Imagination and its Role in Researching Popular Music



Brian A. Inglis Semiotics as a mode of popular music analysis and interpretation



Russ Bestley Form and Function: Deconstructing Music Graphics



Sarah Baker et al.  Do-it-together: Punk Methodologies for Researching the Heritage of Popular Music



Kirsty Fife Records, Subjects and Agents: Exploring Archives of Popular Music Through Critical Archival Studies



Dana DeVlieger Issues in United States Forensic Musicological Analysis of Popular Music



Rob Upton The cover-version spectrum: Reframing the relationship between imitation and transformation in pop-punk cover-versions



Paul Thompson and Barkley McKay Digging in the Takes: Using Archaeological Approaches to Study Popular Music History



Michael Ahlers and Carsten Wernicke Artefact Analysis - Socio-Materiality of Music Production and Creativity



Florian Heesch and Daniel Suer Adele Clarke’s Situational Analysis and Its Potential for Popular Music Studies



Tenley Martin  Cosmopolitan Gubs: Glocalization and Non-native Culture Brokers in the Globalization of Popular Music Cultures



Gareth Dylan Smith Art Gallery Drum Kit Solos, Spirituality and Practical Musicology



Raquel Campos Ethnographic Methods and Ethics for Online Cultures of Popular Music



Iain Findlay-Walsh Internet Pop Reception as Sonic Autoethnography - Circulating Music Story and Self Online        



Sadie Hochman-Ruiz Is it Drag?: Trans Perspectives on Queering Popular Music Research



Ryan J. Lambe Staying in the Field: Emotional Labour and Trauma in Popular Music Ethnography 



Na Li Representing Power Through China Wind Music: The Soft and Hard Masculinities of the Nation



Hussein Boon The Conferralist Framework – Method and Application in Popular Musicology



Priscila Alvarez-Cueva When ‘Up for It’ Is Not for Everyone. From Content Analysis to The Music Analysis Model (MAS-Model): An Approximation of Contemporary Music From a Decolonial Lens.



Sini Timonen Person-Centered Popular Music Education: Negotiating Gender, Community and Industry Expectations



Bryan Powell   Popular Music Education Methodologies in the United States: And Overview



Chris Whiting  Process-based Pedagogies for Creative Practice Studies



Alethea De Villiers Pimp my piano pedagogy “classical” piano repertoire and contemporary piano pedagogy



Pat O’Grady Popular Music Production: Rethinking Recording Studio Labels          



Simone Tosoni and Alessandro Ricotti Exploring post-subcultural participation through a practice-centred approach: the case of the vaporwave (virtual) scene 



Adam J. Goldwyn Recovery Studies and Pop Musicology: The Twelve Steps as Lyrical, Visual, and Sonic Rhetoric



Jo Haynes and Raphaël Nowak When is a music audience? The challenges of a sociological perspective of music audiences in the platform ag



Marcus Moberg and Christopher Partridge Studying Religion and Popular Music



Mike Dines In Search of Krishna: Narrative Enquiry and the Trajectory of the Spiritual in Krishnacore



Tore Størvold Confronting Climate Change in Popular Music Texts: Nostalgia, Apocalypse, Utopia



Marc Brooks Do Meat-Eaters Dream of Vengeful Sheep? Towards a Methodology for Animal-Oriented Music Criticism



Maria Perevedentseva An Ecosemiotic Approach to the Analysis of Timbre



Kirsten Hermes Research methods in live electronic music and audio-visual performance



Hon-Lun Helan Yang and Edmond Tsang Yik-Man Technology, Creativity, and Pop Music Production: In the Case of Cantopop



Alessandro Gandini and Maurizio Corbella From Spotify to SpotiGeM: Studying Playlist Cultures with Qualitative Digital Methods 



Eulalia Febrer Coll Popular Music in Esports, On and Beyond the Stage