Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 1

John Shepherd is a Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Carleton University, Canada. He has been a member of EPMOW’s editorial board since 1990 and has published widely in the sociology and aesthetics of music and popular music studies. David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). He proposed the idea of EPMOW with blues scholar Paul Oliver in the 1980s and has worked on the project since then. Dave Laing is the author of several books on popular music and a former editor of Music Week. Former Research Fellow at the University of Westminster where he conducted research on the music industry. Paul Oliver is a Fellow of Oxford Brookes University. Peter Wicke was Professor of the Theory and History of Popular Music and retirement Director of the Research Centre for Popular Music at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, until his retirement in 2016. He is one of the founding members of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).

• Preface; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Arrangement of the Material; Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions; Documentation; Popular Music Studies; Social Phenomena; Stylistic and Textual Dimensions; Venues; Part II: The Industry; General Terms; Audio Technical Terms; Broadcasting; Copyright; Deals and Contracts; The Film Industry and Popular Music; Instrument Manufacture; Management and Marketing; Publishing; Recording: Record Corporations; Recording Studios; Record Labels/Companies; Unions; Index

This is an extraordinary achievement and it will become an absolutely vital and trusted resource for everyone working in the field of popular music studies. Even more broadly, anyone interested in popular music or popular culture more generally will enjoy - and find many uses for - the wealth of information and insight captured in this volume.