{"product_id":"popular-music-digital-technology-and-society-paperback","title":"Popular Music, Digital Technology and Society - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNick Prior\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking a distinctive, multi-theoretical look at popular music's place in contemporary society, this book is both an original inquiry and an assessment of the state of popular music - its protagonists, audiences and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNick Prior is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His primary interests pivot to the sociology of music and particularly the attempt to understand the complex layers that fold around popular music in an increasingly digitally mediated present. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003ePopular Music, Digital Technology and Society, \u003c\/i\u003e is published by Sage (2018) and explores how music′s devices, styles, sounds and personnel are implicated in post-1980s shifts in the nature and organisation of culture and society. He works in a post-Bourdieusian tradition, though his most recent work opens up the potentials of assemblage thinking when applied to electronic and digital vocalities and the role of virtual idols in Japan. His work has appeared in the journals \u003ci\u003eContemporary Music Review, Cultural Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, New Formations, Information, Communication and Society, Space and Culture, Réseaux, Sociology Compass \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCultural Sociology \u003c\/i\u003esince 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67908781539480,"sku":"9781848600454","price":152.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/0oeD004Mls9781848600454.webp?v=1793897471","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobookstore.com\/products\/popular-music-digital-technology-and-society-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}