Everyday I Write the Book:
A Bibliography of (Mostly) Academic
Work on Rock and Pop Music

A-C // D-G // H-L // M-R // S-Z
Recent additions
  1. Balliger, Robin. 1999. Politics. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 57-70. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  2. Barber-Kersovan, Alenka. 1997/1998. Street noise: A hip-hop project considering unemployment. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 7-19.
  3. Beebe, Thomas O. 1991. Ballad of the apocalypse: Another look at Bob Dylan's "Hard Rain." Text and Performance Quarterly, 11: 18-34.
  4. Blake, Andrew. 1997. Making noise: Notes from the 1980s. Popular Music and Society 21(3): 19-33.
  5. Brackett, David. 1999. Music. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 124-140. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  6. Brehony, Kevin J. 1998. "I used to get mad at my school": Representations of schooling in rock and pop music. British Journal of Sociology of Education 19(1): 113-134.
  7. Burns, Gary. 1997. Popular Music and Society and the evolving discipline of popular music studies. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 123-131.
  8. Burns, Gary. 1998. Visualising 1950s hits on Your hit parade. Popular Music 17(2): 139-152.
  9. Carrabine, Eamonn, and Brian Longhurst. 1997/1998. What difference does a course make?: Music, education and everyday life. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 79-91.
  10. Chambers, Iain. 2000. At the end of this sentence a sail will unfurl . . . modernities, music, and the journey of identity. In Without guarantees: In honour of Stuart Hall, ed.Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg, and Angela McRobbie, 67-82. New York: Verso.
  11. Cloonan, Martin. 1997. State of the nation: "Englishness," pop, and politics in the mid-1990s. Popular Music and Society 21(2): 47-70.
  12. Cohen, Sara. 1999. Scenes. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 239-250. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  13. Colista, Celia, and Glenn Leshner. 1998. Traveling music: Following the path of music through the global market. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15: 181-194.
  14. Cooper, B. Lee. 1997. It's still rock and roll to me: Reflections on the evolution of popular music and rock scholarship. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 101-108.
  15. Cooper, B. Lee. 1997. Wise men never try: A discography of fool songs, 1945-1995. Popular Music and Society 21(2): 115-131.
  16. Cooper, B. Lee. 1997. A telephone song discography. Popular Music and Society 21(4): 111-122.
  17. DeChaine, D. Robert. 1997. Mapping subversion: Queercore music's playful discourse of resistance. Popular Music and Society 21(4): 7-37.
  18. Duffett, Mark. 2000. Going down like a song: National identity, global commerce and the Great Canadian Party. Popular Music 19(1): 1-11.
  19. Elflein, Dietmar. 1998. Some aspects of hip-hop history in Germany. Popular Music 17(3): 255-265.
  20. Fenster, Mark, and Thomas Swiss. 1999. Business. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 225-238. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  21. Fischer, Paul D. 1997/1998. "Do we really have to think about this stuff?: Music industry majors and popular music study. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 71-78.
  22. Fitzgerald, Jon. 1997. Songwriters in the U.S. Top Forty, 1963-1966. Popular Music and Society 21(4): 85-110.
  23. Ford, Charles. 1998. Robert Johnson's rhythms. Popular Music 17(1): 71-93.
  24. Forman, Murray. 2000. "Represent": Race, space and place in rap music. Popular Music 19(1): 65-90.
  25. Fryer, Paul. 1997. "Everybody's on top of the pops": Popular music on British television 1960-1985. Popular Music and Society 21(3): 153-171.
  26. Fuchs, Cynthia. 1999. Images. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 178-187. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  27. Gaitandjiev, Gencho. 1997/1998. Popular music in school: A point of view from Bulgaria. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 65-69.
  28. Ganzert, Charles F. 1997. Hot clocks, jingles, and top tunes: The Bartell Group stations and the development of Top 40 radio. Popular Music and Society 21(4): 51-62.
  29. Garofalo, Reebee, Bob Fink, Becky Gebhardt, and Casper Partovi. 2001. A discussion about Napster. Journal of Popular Music Studies 13(1): 93-102.
  30. Goodwin, Andrew. 1997. On being a professor of pop. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 43-52.
  31. Grabe, Maria Elizabeth. 1997. Massification revisited: Country music and demography. Popular Music and Society 21(4): 63-84.
  32. Green, Lucy. 1999. Ideology. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 5-17. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  33. Grenier, Line, Anahid Kassabian, David Brackett, and Will Straw. 1999/2000. Roundtable: The future of popular music studies. Journal of Popular Music Studies 11/12: 151-166.
  34. Hakanen, Ernest A. 1998. Counting down to number one: The evolution of the meaning of popular music charts. Popular Music 17(1): 95-111.
  35. Harris, Keith. 2000. "Roots"?: The relationship between the global and the local within the Extreme Metal scene. Popular Music 19(1): 13-30.
  36. Hendricks, Leta. 1997. A review of rap sound recordings in academic and public libraries. Popular Music and Society 21(2): 91-114.
  37. Hill, Trent. 1999/2000. A distinctive country voice: The Nashville sound and country's genre crisis in the 1950s. Journal of Popular Music Studies 11/12: 3-17.
  38. Homan, Shane. 2000. Losing the local: Sydney and the Oz rock tradition. Popular Music 19(1): 31-49.
  39. Horner, Bruce. 1999. Discourse. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 18-34. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  40. Horner, Bruce, and Thomas Swiss, eds. 1999a. Key terms in popular music and culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  41. Horner, Bruce, and Thomas Swiss. 1999b. Putting it into words: Key terms for studying popular music. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 1-2. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  42. Inglis, Ian. 1999/2000. Pete Best: History and his story. Journal of Popular Music Studies 11/12: 103-124.
  43. Johnson, Bruce. 1997/1998. Better late than never: Thoughts on the music curriculum in the late 20th century. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 1-6.
  44. Jones, Steve, and Martin Sorger. 1999/2000. Covering music: A brief history and analysis of album cover design. Journal of Popular Music Studies 11/12: 68-102.
  45. Joyce, Victoria Moon. 1997. What's so queer about composing?: Exploring Attali's concept of composition from a queer perspective. Popular Music and Society 21(3): 35-59.
  46. Kassabian, Anahid. 1999. Popular. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 113-123. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  47. Keightley, Keir. 2001. You keep coming back like a song: Adult audiences, taste panics, and the idea of the standard. Journal of Popular Music Studies 13(1): 7-40.
  48. Kirby, Marjorie D. 2000. Home on the page: A virtual place of music community. Popular Music 19(1): 91-100.
  49. Kohl, Paul R. 1997. Reading between the lines: Music and noise in hegemony and resistance. Popular Music and Society 21(3): 3-17.
  50. Krims, Adam. 2000. Rap music and the poetics of identity. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  51. Kruse, Holly. 1999. Gender. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 85-100. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  52. Lewis, George H. 1997. Won't get fooled again: 25 years of pop recordings and reviews. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 109-116.
  53. Lipsitz, George. 1997. Remembering Robert Johnson: Romance and reality. Popular Music and Society 21(4): 39-50.
  54. Lipton, Mark. 1997/1998. I wanna be a rock star: My personal pedagogy of popular music. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10:101-108.
  55. Lynch, Christopher. 2001. Ritual transformation through Michael Jackson's music video. Journal of Communication Inquiry 25(2): 114-131.
  56. Maas, Georg, and Hartmut Reszel. 1998. "Whatever happened to . . . ?": The decline and renaissance of rock in the former GDR. Popular Music 17(3): 267-277.
  57. Marcus, Greil. 2000. Double trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a land of no alternatives. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
  58. McLean, Polly E. 1997. Age ain't nothing but a number: A cross-cultural reading of popular music in the age of sexual expression among at-risk adolescents. Popular Music and Society 21(2): 1-16.
  59. McLeod, Kembrew. 2001. Genres, subgenres, sub-subgenres, and more: Musical and social differentiation within electronic/dance music communities. Journal of Popular Music Studies 13(1): 59-75.
  60. Mercer-Taylor, Peter. 1998. Songs from the bell jar: Autonomy and the resistance in the music of the Bangles. Popular Music 17(2): 187-204.
  61. Middleton, Richard. 1999. Form. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 141-155. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  62. Mitchell, Tony. 1997. Flat city sounds: A cartography of the Christchurch music scene. Popular Music and Society 21(3): 83-105.
  63. Neal, Mark Anthony. 1997. Sold out on soul: The corporate annexation of black popular music. Popular Music and Society 21(3): 117-135
  64. Neumann, Mark, and Timothy A. Simpson. 1997. Smuggled sound: Bootleg recording and the pursuit of popular memory. Symbolic Interaction 29(4): 319-341.
  65. Nexica, Irene J. 1997. Music marketing: Tropes of hybrids, crossovers, and cultural dialogue through music. Popular Music and Society 21(3): 61-82.
  66. Niketta, Reiner. 1998. Rock musicians in Germany and ideas for their promotion. Popular Music 17(3): 311-325.
  67. Pacini Hernandez, Deborah, and Reebee Garofalo. 1999/2000. Hip hop in Havana: Rap, race and national identity in contemporary Cuba. Journal of Popular Music Studies 11/12: 18-47.
  68. Peterson, Richard A. 1997. Popular music is plural. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 53-58.
  69. Piekarski, James. 1997/1998. Out of context: Teaching music production and technology in a college of mass communication. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 21-24.
  70. Plasketes, George M. 1997. My back pages: Reflections on Rick(y), rock reunions, and writing record reviews. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 133-140.
  71. Potter, Russell A. 1999. Race. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 71-84. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  72. Pruter, Robert. 1997. A history of doowop fanzines. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 11-41.
  73. Ramsey, Guthrie P. Jr. 2001. Blues and the ethnographic truth. Journal of Popular Music Studies 13(1): 41-58.
  74. Rodman, Gilbert B. 1999. Histories. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 35-45. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  75. Rodnitzky, Jerry. 1997. A rocky road to respect: Trends in academic writing on popular music and Popular Music and Society. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 93-96.
  76. Rosenberg, Jessica, and Gitana Garofalo. 1998. Riot grrrl: Revolutions from within. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23(3): 809-841.
  77. Sandow, Greg. 1997/1998. Breaking barriers: Classical music in an age of pop. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 43-63.
  78. Sanjek, David. 1997. Funkentelechy vs. the Stockholm syndrome: The place of industrial analysis in popular music studies. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 73-92.
  79. Sanjek, David. 1999. Institutions. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 46-56. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  80. Sanjek, David. 1999/2000. Navigating the "channel": Recent scholarship on African-American popular music. Journal of Popular Music Studies 11/12: 167-192.
  81. Santelli, Robert. 1997. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 97-99.
  82. Scheurer, Timothy E. 1997. The best books on popular music since 1971: A bibliography. Popular Music and Society 21(1): 117-121.
  83. Schowalter, Daniel F. 2000. Remembering the dangers of rock and roll: Toward a historical narrative of the rock festival. Critical Studies in Media Communication 17(1): 86-102.
  84. Sernhede, Ove. 2000. Exoticism and death as a modern taboo: Gangsta rap and the search for intensity. In Without guarantees: In honour of Stuart Hall, ed.Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg, and Angela McRobbie, 302-317. New York: Verso.
  85. Shelton, Marla L. 1997. Can't touch this!: Representations of the African American female body in urban rap videos. Popular Music and Society 21(3): 107-116.
  86. Shepherd. John. 1999. Text. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 156-177. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  87. Shumway, David R. 1999. Performance. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 188-198. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  88. Sieving, Christopher. 2001. Super sonics: Song score as counter-narration in Super Fly. Journal of Popular Music Studies 13(1): 77-91.
  89. Smith, Christopher. 1997/1998. Teaching sound(ly): Approaches to world music in an undergraduate classroom. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 25-36.
  90. Straw, Will. 1999. Authorship. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 199-208. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  91. Tagg, Philip. 1998. The Göteborg connection: Lessons in the history and politics of popular music education and research. Popular Music 17(2): 219-242.
  92. Théberge, Paul. 1999. Technology. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 209-224. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
  93. Van der Lee, Pedro. 1998. Sitars and bossas: World music influences. Popular Music 17(1): 45-70.
  94. Vernallis, Carol. 1997/1998. Teaching music video: Aesthetics, politics and pedagogy. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 93-99.
  95. Vernallis, Carol. 1998. The aesthetics of music video: An analysis of Madonna's "Cherish." Popular Music 17(2): 153-185.
  96. Wald, Gayle. 1998. Just a girl?: Rock music, feminism, and the cultural construction of female youth. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23(3): 585-610.
  97. Warner, Timothy. 1997/1998. "I'll give it five": The assessment of popular music performance. Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/10: 37-42.
  98. Watson, Richard A.R. 1997. The proxemiotics of fame and totemic violence: Projective sociology extrapolates a (hopefully mistaken) trend in pop music. Popular Music and Society 21(3): 137-151.
  99. Weinstein, Deena. 1999. Youth. In Key terms in popular music and culture, ed. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss, 101-110. Malden, MA: Blackwell.