This book uncovers how music experience-live and recorded-is changing along with the use of digital technology in the 2000s. Digital technology has also introduced new distribution and consumption technologies that allow record listening to be more closely linked to the live music experience.

This book makes a case for the synergetic union between reality TV and the music industry. It delves into technological change in popular music, and the role of music reality TV and social media in the pop production process. It challenges the current scholarship which does not adequately distinguish the economic significance of these developments.

This book offers an in-depth and global study of the 'music cities paradigm', a phenomenon that sheds light on the relationship between music, space and identity. Building on case studies from Melbourne, Austin and Berlin, Andrea Baker offers an interdisciplinary study blending musicology, urban studies, journalism studies and sociology.

This book explores the significance of reggae and hip hop in Southern Italy from the beginning of the 1980s to the present.

This edited collection is one of the first of its kind to examine the relationship between night and popular music.