Popular Music and Society, Volume 48, Issue 2, May 2025 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpms20/48/2
This new issue contains the following articles:
EDITORS’ NOTE
One Chord Is Fine, Two Chords Are Pushing It, Three Chords and You’re Into Jazz
Thomas M. Kitts & Gary Burns
Pages: 131-131 |DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2025.2492454
Research Article
Drowning Out Escapism: Performances of Transformative Confinement in the Work of Beyoncé and Harry Styles
Nicola Hyland & Hannah Joyce Banks
Pages: 132-147 |DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2024.2444169
Managed Hearts: Emotional Labor and Structural Change in the Work of Young Female Music Managers in Hungary
Emília Barna, Ágnes Blaskó & Máté Horváth
Pages: 148-168 |DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2024.2446029
Copyright and the Ethics of Sampling: The Lesson of the Czech Music Scene | Open Access
Pavel Zahrádka, Ivan David, Rudolf Leška & Miroslav Krša
Pages: 169-193 |DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2024.2448927
“I’d Have to Be Crazy if I Did it Strictly on a Financial Basis”: Australian Regional Music Venues, Burnout, and Precarious Music Ecologies | Open Access
Rosie Roberts & Sam Whiting
Pages: 194-211 |DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2025.2455302
Musicians’ Unions and Live Music: Historical and Contemporary Challenges in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States | Open Access
Ben Green
Pages: 212-231 |DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2025.2465368
Dutch Politics of Music-Washing at Eurovision: The Monstrous Hybrid of Commodified Musical Legacies of Slavery, Imperialist Utopianism, and White Nationalism | Open Access
Marek Susdorf
Pages: 232-252 |DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2025.2468989
Book Review
The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up
by Serouj Aprahamian, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 228 pp., $80.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1501394317
Lucia Clara Affaticati
Pages: 253-254 |DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2025.2496062