Introduction to Special Issue: Home, Work, and Music - Toward a Domestic Turn in Popular Music Studies

2025/10/20 by Nick Prior, Emília Barna, Paul Harkins +2 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Diverse Music Education Insights #Music History and Culture #Social and Cultural Dynamics

paper · doi:10.1080/03007766.2026.2623719

openalex publication_date 2025/10/20 · openalex created_date 2026/02/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

In this introduction to this special issue we make the case for a domestic turn in popular music studies, a programmatic invitation for a direct pivot to the home in all its variable forms and complexity. We point to the lack of concerted treatment of the home in popular music studies while identifying its centrality to debates about creative labor, the changing nature of music, and gendered inequalities in musical practices. We follow this with a brief summary of some historical work by feminist scholars on popular music and society and then move to a thematic summary of the collection.

Citations

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Discussions

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