James, Martin

Martin James is professor of music industries at Southampton Solent University.Martin joined Southampton Solent University from the University of Sunderland in July 2007. He studied for his first degree at Nottingham Trent University where he was awarded a BA (Hons) Communication Studies.He gained an MA Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland, where he also received a PhD. His doctoral thesis was called Versioning Histories and Genres, a commentary on his books State of Bass: Jungle The Story So Far(1997) and French Connections: From Discotheque to Discovery (2002).Prior to