Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide, offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set. Featuring a broad range of subjects, people, cultures, and geographic areas, and spanning musical genres such as traditional, folk, jazz, rock, reggae, samba, rai, punk, hip-hop, and many more, this guide highlights different approaches and discussions within global popular music research. This research guide is comprehensive in scope, providing a vital resource for scholars and students approaching the vast amount of publications on popular music studies and popular music traditions around the world. Thorough cross-referencing and robust indexes of genres, places, names, and subjects make the guide easy to use.

• Volume 1, Global Perspectives in Popular Music Studies, situates popular music studies within global perspectives and geo-cultural settings at large. It offers over nine hundred in-depth annotated bibliographic entries.

• Volume 2, Transnational Discourses of Global Popular Music Studies, covers the geographical areas of North America: United States and Canada; the Caribbean, Central America, and South America/Latin America; Europe; Africa and Middle East; Asia; and areas of Oceania: Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Pacific Islands. It provides over twenty-four hundred annotated bibliographic entries.

Complete indexes are included in each volume.