Books by Charles Fairchild

Presents two inter-related cases of crisis and opportunity - the music industry's struggle over piracy and the 'Idol' phenomenon. This book shows how multiple sites of consumption, and attempts to mediate and control the circulation of popular music are used to combat the foundational challenges facing the music industry.

Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike.