Sound in Urban and Popular Culture

The series provides a vibrant space for those working in the fields of sound within urban spaces or/and within popular culture. It especially wishes to publish works that focus on the ‘South’ - South America, Africa and Asia as well as those from the industrial West. As such it also encourages work that focusses upon the role of sound in race, gender and class both geographically and culturally. The series is broad based and seeks submissions that develop, broaden and interrogate our understanding of the workings and nature of sound in urban and popular culture. As such we welcome both work that inhabits the realms of cultural practices and performance together with those that use place based grounded analysis of specific urban spaces. We especially encourage submissions from those working in the fields of urban geography, anthropology, ethnomusicology, sociology and cultural studies together with other disciplines. The series will publish full length monographs and edited collections that focus upon original and underexplored sonic issues within urban and popular culture. The series will aim to provide valuable texts that will be presented in a style accessible to students and wherever possible will be published in both hardback and softback form thereby facilitating broad student appeal.