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View article: GH treatment in pediatric Down syndrome: a systematic review and mini meta-analysis
GH treatment in pediatric Down syndrome: a systematic review and mini meta-analysis Open
Objective To analyze and determine the safety and efficacy of growth hormone (GH) treatment in Down syndrome (DS) pediatric patients and to weigh ethical aspects involved. Design Systematic review and mini meta-analysis of the literature. …
View article: Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City
Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City Open
The celebration of popular music can be an important mode of cultural expression and a source of pride for urban communities. This Element analyses the capacity for popular music heritage to enact cultural justice in the deindustrialising …
View article: Music Sociology
Music Sociology Open
Music Sociology critically evaluates current approaches to the study of music in sociology and presents a broad overview of how music is positioned and represented in existing sociological scholarship. It then goes on to offer a new framew…
View article: New Model, Same Old Stories?
New Model, Same Old Stories? Open
At the turn of the 2020s, music is largely distributed and consumed via streaming services. This new »moment« in recorded music has attracted a lot of attention from scholars, with the aim of identifying the nature of transformations that …
View article: Music heritage, cultural justice and the Steel City
Music heritage, cultural justice and the Steel City Open
Wollongong is a regional deindustrialising Australian city located south of Sydney, New South Wales. Although Wollongong’s economy was long dominated by metal manufacturing, this industry downsized considerably throughout the 1980s and 199…
View article: We were never cool: Investigating knowledge production and discourses of cool in the sociology of music
We were never cool: Investigating knowledge production and discourses of cool in the sociology of music Open
This article examines knowledge production in the sociology of music. Focusing on the idea of cool music, we interrogate the nature of music researchers' relationship with their object of research. While the qualification and connotation o…
View article: A cultural justice approach to popular music heritage in deindustrialising cities
A cultural justice approach to popular music heritage in deindustrialising cities Open
Deindustrialisation contributes to significant transformations for local communities, including rising unemployment, poverty and urban decay. Following the ‘creative city’ phenomenon in cultural policy, deindustrialising cities across the …
View article: Digital Music Distribution: The Sociology of Online Music Streams
Digital Music Distribution: The Sociology of Online Music Streams Open
Reviewed by Raphaël Nowak, Griffith University
View article: “Vaporwave Is (Not) a Critique of Capitalism”: Genre Work in An Online Music Scene
“Vaporwave Is (Not) a Critique of Capitalism”: Genre Work in An Online Music Scene Open
Vaporwave, first emerging in the early 2010s, is a genre of music characterised by extensive sampling of earlier “elevator music,” such as smooth jazz, MoR, easy listening, and muzak. Audio and visual markers of the 1980s and 1990s, white-…
View article: Popular music, community archives and public history online: cultural justice and the DIY approach to heritage
Popular music, community archives and public history online: cultural justice and the DIY approach to heritage Open
Introduction\n\nThis chapter explores the expanding range of community archiving activity concerned with the preservation of cultures, experiences and memories associated with popular music. Engendered by forms as disparate as jazz, rock, …
View article: Editors' Introduction
Editors' Introduction Open
Editors' Introduction
View article: Editors’ Introduction
Editors’ Introduction Open
Welcome to issue 4.2 of the Journal of World Popular Music, an academic peerreviewed journal that welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives and is dedicated to the dissemination of research on popular musics in different international and so…
View article: Editors’ Introduction
Editors’ Introduction Open
To open the fourth volume of the Journal of World Popular Music, we present a rich issue that brings together a significant number of scholars working on different areas related to popular music studies in the world, and who offer their ex…