Understanding Popular Music Culture offers an accessible, revised introduction to how popular music is produced, circulated and interpreted. Roy Shuker outlines major debates in popular music studies and shows how technology and industry shifts reshape musical meaning.

The book examines production and marketing, musicians and stardom, musical texts, music video and MTV, audiences and subcultures, and music as political expression. Case studies range from Robert Johnson and the Sex Pistols to Shania Twain and Lady Gaga to connect historical roots with contemporary trends.

Included are a comprehensive discography arranged by metagenres, suggestions for further reading, listening and viewing, and an accompanying website with chapter focus questions and study activities—suitable for students, instructors and interested readers.

• Updated fourth edition with new industry and tech coverage
• Topics: social networks, marketing, genres and cover songs
• Discography and online study resources

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