滕继萌、劳伦斯·西蒙斯编著的《读解流行音乐》共收集了20篇音乐批评的专业论文，涉及了世界流行音乐研究的方方面面，其体系完整、内容充实、对于本科高年级和研究生一、二年级学生尤为适用，既可以作为本科生的选修课教材、也可以用作研究生专业课教材，特别是对即将进入硕士论文写作阶段的学生尤为重要。为了帮助学生提高学习效率，每篇论文都配有详尽的中文导读、完整的英文注释以及课后思考题，全书的最后还附有流行音乐研究关键词词汇表。

《读解流行音乐》收集了20篇反映欧美学者自20世纪90年代以来对世界流行音乐研究的最新成果，以跨学科、跨文化等多重视角和研究范式对流行音乐的不同流派、传播手段、音乐版权、群体身份和性别等话题进行了细致入微的解构，分析和解读了流行音乐中歌手、乐迷、唱片公司管理者、音乐类型、传播手段等主要元素及其建构的意识形态网络，立体呈现了当今世界流行音乐的发展趋势。

《读解流行音乐》由滕继萌、劳伦斯·西蒙斯编著。

Unit 1: Popular Noises

 Text I What Is This "Black" in Black Popular Culture？

 Text II From John Farmhand to Lordi: the Noise of Music

Unit 2 : The Political Economy of Music

 Text III The Music Industry and Rap:between the Street and the Executive Suite

 Text IV Digitalisation, Music and Copyright

Unit 3 : Technology

 Text V The MP3 as Cultural Artifact

 Text VI No Dead Air！ The iPod and the Culture of Mobile Listening

Unit 4 : Musical Creativity, Authorship and Musicianship

 Text VII Music, Culture, and Creativity

 Text VIII From Craft to Corporate Interfacing: Rock Musicianship in the Age of Music Television and Computer-Programmed Music

Unit 5: Musical Forms, Styles and Genres

 Text IX Popular Music Analysis: Ten Apothegms and Four Instances

 Text X From "My Blue Heaven" to "Race with the Devil" : Echo, Reverb (Dis) Ordered Space in Early Popular Music Recording

Unit 6 : Visualizing Music

 Text XI Panel Discussion on Film Sound / Film Music

 Text XII The Aesthetics of Music Video: an Analysis of Madonna' s"Cherish"

Unit 7: Subjectivities, Bodies & Identities: Youth

 Text XIII Researching Youth Culture and Popular Music: a Methodological Critique

 Text XIV Just a Girl？ Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth

Unit 8: Subjectivities, Bodies & Identities: Gender and Sexuality

 Text XV Turn the Beat Around: Richard Dyer' s "In Defence of Disco" Revisited

 Text XVI What' s That Smell？ Queer Temporalities and Subcultural Lives

Unit 9 : Subjectivities, Bodies & Identifies: Race and Ethnicity

 Text XVII Music and the Global Order

 Text XVIII From Bombay'to Bollywood: Tracking Cinematic and Music Tours

Unit 10: Spaces, Flows and Subjectivities

 Text XIX Dancing between Islands: Hip Hop and the Samoan Diaspora

 Text XX Would You Like Some World Music with Your Latte？ Starbucks, Putumayo, and Distributed Tourism

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