Books By Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Emma Webster - Author

Simon Frith is Tovey Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. His work is collected in Taking Popular Music Seriously (Ashgate 2007) and, with Simon Zagorski-Thomas, he edited The Art of Record Production (Ashgate 2012). He chairs the judges of the Mercury Music Prize and is a fellow of the British Academy. Matt Brennan is the Chancellor’s Fellow of Music at the University of Edinburgh. He specialises in popular music studies combining historical, sociological, and business perspectives. His work has previously appeared in the journals Popular Music, Popular Music History, and Jazz Research Journal. Martin Cloonan is Professor of Popular Music Politics at the University of Glasgow. His research interests cover all areas of music and politics including censorship, regulation and music policy. Previous books include Popular Music and The State in the UK (Ashgate, 2007) and Dark Side of The Tune: Popular Music and Violence (Ashgate, 2008). Emma Webster received her PhD from the University of Glasg