Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies, Institutions

by Tony Bennett (Editor), Simon Frith (Editor), Lawrence Grossberg (Editor)

A unique collection of new essays which make suggestions for the new directions for the study of contemporary popular musics. There is comparative analysis of the relationship between the state and the popular music industries.

306 pages, Paperback

First published April 11, 1993

About the author

Tony Bennett is an English academic who has also worked in Australia. Bennett is an important figure in the development of the Australian approach to cultural studies known as "cultural policy studies."
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Reviews

[Alejo · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you like public policy, this one is a must. I find it boring.

[Stan Barker · Rating 3 out of 5]

I know what chaps, let's make this so inaccessible and ridiculously over-intellectualized that only the most pretentious of our postmodern clique can reference it. Shame.