High volume or extreme loudness is ingrained in the aesthetics of many forms of amplified popular music, most obviously in rock and its associated sub-genres, but also in many other genres and styles including various forms ...

The nature of the economic, social and cultural relations between the radio industry and the record industry is most often characterised by both academics and practitioners as symbiotic, that is, both parties benefit from ...

This essay investigates music radio consumption and how it relates to local popular music production. The study focuses on one specialist weekly music programme, Beat Patrol, presented in several formats by Peter Easton ...