Dr David Hesmondhalgh
From April 2007, Professor of Media and Music Industries at the University of Leeds (Institute of Communications Studies)
Research interests
My main areas of interest are:
- the cultural and creative industries, and all aspects of media and cultural production
- music, society and culture
- cultural and media policy, including copyright
- the media and social theory
I welcome enquiries about doctoral research in these and related areas. Some further details follow.
- My book The Cultural Industries is an analysis of changes and continuities in the television, film, music and publishing industries since the 1980s; and of the rise of new cultural industries (such as those associated with the internet and ‘new media’) during that time. A completely revised, expanded and updated second edition is now available from Sage Publications.
- In 2006, I began (with my colleague Dr Sarah Baker) a two-year research project on Creative Work in the Cultural Industries, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This compares the organisation of creative work in three industries: music, television and magazine journalism.
- I was the main convenor (with Jason Toynbee) of the ESRC Centre on Socio-Cultural Change’s 2006 conference, on Media Change and Social Theory. An edited volume based on the conference is being developed for publication in 2008 (Routledge).
- Papers based on a research project investigating music, emotion, subjectivity and aesthetics are currently under consideration at journals.
- My earlier work investigated independent record companies (especially those associated with punk, indie and dance music) and the extent to which they provide 'alternatives' to the multinational entertainment corporations.
Recent publications
Books
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (March, 2007) The Cultural Industries, 2nd edn. London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: SAGE. Significantly revised, expanded and updated from the first edition published in 2002. Translated into complex Chinese (Taipei, Weber Books) with Korean and simple Chinese translations due in 2007.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. and Negus, K. (eds) (2002) Popular Music Studies, London, Hodder Arnold. This book is now out of print but we hope to put some of the contributions up on the web.
- Born, G. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (eds) (2000) Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music, Berkeley, CA, and London, University of California Press. This edited volume includes a sixty-page introduction by the two editors on questions of difference, appropriation and representation in music.
Journal articles and book chapters since 2005
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) 'Cultural and creative Industries', forthcoming in Bennett, T. and Frow, J. (eds) Handbook of Cultural Analysis. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) 'Some key terms in recent youth cultural studies: critical reflections from the sociology of music', in Hodkinson, P. and Deicke, W. (eds), Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) ‘Digitalisation, music and copyright’, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, CRESC Working Paper number 30. http://www.cresc.ac.uk/publications/documents/wp30.pdf
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) ‘The Digitalisation of music’, forthcoming in Jeffcut, P. and Pratt, A.C. (eds), Creativity and Innovation in the Cultural Industries. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) ‘Bourdieu, the media and cultural production’, Media, Culture and Society, vol. 28, no. 2, pp.211-232.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) ‘Digital sampling and cultural inequality’, Social and Legal Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 53-76 (as part of a special section on Law and Music).
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) ‘Discourse analysis and content analysis’, in Gillespie, M. and Toynbee, J. (eds.), Analysing Media Texts, Maidenhead and Milton Keynes: The Open University Press/The Open University, pp. 119-156.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) ‘Inside media organizations: production, autonomy and power’, in Hesmondhalgh, D. (ed.), Media Production, Maidenhead and Milton Keynes: The Open University Press/The Open University, pp. 49-90.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) 'The production of media entertainment', in Curran, J. and Gurevitch, M. (eds.), Mass Media and Society, 4th edn., London, Hodder Arnold, pp. 153-171. [I took ages over this. It’s my attempt to map the research that has been carried out in these fields].
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) 'Media and cultural policy as public policy: the case of the British Labour government', International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 95-109.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. and Pratt, A.C. (2005) 'Cultural industries and cultural policy', International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-13.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) 'Subcultures, scenes or tribes? none of the above', Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-40.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) ‘Producing celebrity’, in Evans, J. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (eds.), Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity, Maidenhead and Milton Keynes: The Open University Press/The Open University, pp. 97-134.
Pre-2005 publications include the following:
- Hesmondhalgh, D. and Melville, C. (2001) ‘Urban breakbeat culture: repercussions of hip hop in the UK’, in Mitchell, T. (ed.), Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA, Hanover, CT and London: Wesleyan University Press, pp. 86-110.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2001) ‘British popular music and national identity’, in Morley, D. and Robins, K. (eds.), British Cultural Studies, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 273-86.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (2000) ‘International Times: Fusions, Exoticism and Antiracism in Electronic Dance Music’, in Born, G. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (eds.), Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, pp 280-304.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (1999) ‘Alternative media, alternative texts: rethinking democratisation in the cultural industries’, in Curran, J. (ed.), Media Organisations in Society, London: Arnold, pp. 107-126.
- Hesmondhalgh, D (1999) ‘Indie: the aesthetics and institutional politics of a popular music genre’, Cultural Studies vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 34-61.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (1998) ‘The British dance music industry: a case study in independent cultural production’, The British Journal of Sociology vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 234-51.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (1997) ‘Post-punk's attempt to democratise the music industry: the success and failure of Rough Trade’, Popular Music vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 255-74.
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (1996) ‘Post-Fordism, flexibility and the music industries,’ Media, Culture and Society 18,3: 468-488.
Contact Details
Institute of Communication Studies
University of Leeds
LEEDS
LS2 9JT
UK
email:d.j.hesmondhalgh@leeds.ac.uk