ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses mediation of popular music and presents a critical summary of academic approaches to the analysis of that process in the United Kingdom (UK). It draws on all three of Negus's mediations and addresses print, television and radio as the prisms through which popular music is created, consumed and understood. The chapter focuses on studies that address mediation of popular music in the UK, but the influence of the United States on the production and mediation of popular music in Britain is inescapable. The most significant difference between the US and the UK in broadcasting is the presence of the publicly-funded BBC as a powerful, national cultural institution which has no real equivalent in the US and the significance of this addresses in more detail on radio section. The oldest technology addressed in the chapter begins the discussion of mediation and pop with the printed word.
