Pop Music, Pop Culture

Pop Music, Pop Culture, by Chris Rojek. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2011. 237pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780745642642.

Although considered a peripheral concern for the majority of sociologists, the analysis of music and its dissemination into social groupings provides a more than adequate window through which to view the relations between cultural development, economic structures, and technological change. Chris Rojek demonstrates this admirably through an eminently sociological approach to understanding the formation and maintenance of pop music in the contemporary world. What is specifically important about this book, however, is depth of the analysis, as it spans the process of music...