Elements in Popular Music is a series that is relevant to scholars based in a range of different academic fields. This includes various areas relevant to music, including musicology, music history, ethnomusicology and folk music, performance, composition, songwriting, music industries, recording and production. It is also of interest to those based in media studies, whether exploring journalism, fandom, celebrity, screen studies, or film and T.V. It is deeply embedded within popular culture, and also provides insights into aspects of cultural studies, gender, sexuality, identity, embodiment, audiences, reception, ethnography, and religion. It often involves crossing disciplinary boundaries, drawing on different empirical and creative methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative. These disparate elements are drawn together within engaging popular music examples and case studies that are of widespread interest to a broad range of specialist and non-specialist readers, within academic circles and the general public.
Series Editor: Rupert Till, University of Huddersfield, UK
Rupert Till is Head of the Department of Music and Design Arts at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His main research interests are in popular music and sound archaeology; he directed Huddersfield activities within the EU funded European Music Archaeology Project, (2013-18), and has been Principal Investigator for two AHRC/EPSRC grants. He studied composition with Gavin Bryars, Christopher Hobbs, Katharine Norman, and George Nicholson. He continues to write electronica and perform under the name “Professor Chill”