Professor Andy Bennett

BA (Hons), MA, PhD

Director, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas

Contact details for Professor Andy Bennett

Research expertise

• Popular music
• Youth music
• Identity and lifestyle
• Post-subcultrual theory
• Cultural sociology of everyday life
• Ethnographic methodology

Publications

Books single-authored

• Bennett, A. (2005) Culture and Everyday Life, London: Sage.
• Bennett, A. (2001) Cultures of Popular Music, Buckingham, Open University Press.
• Bennett, A. (2000) Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, identity and place, London, Macmillan.

Books co-edited / edited

• Bennett, A. Shank, B. and Toynbee, J. (eds) (2006) Popular Music Reader, London: Routledge.
• Bennett, A. and Peterson, R.A. (eds) (2004) Music Scenes: Local, Trans-Local and Virtual, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.  
• Bennett, A. and Kahn-Harris, K. (eds) (2004) After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture, London, Palgrave.
• Bennett, A. (ed.) (2004) Remembering Woodstock, Aldershot, Ashgate.
• Whiteley, S. Bennett, A. and Hawkins, S. (eds) (2004) Music, Space and Place, Aldershot. Ashgate.
• Bennett, A., Cieslik, M. and Miles, S. (eds) (2003) Researching Youth: Issues, Controversies and Dilemmas, London: Palgrave.
• Bennett, A. and Dawe, K. (eds) (2001) Guitar Cultures, Oxford, Berg.

Refereed journal articles

• Baker, S., Bennett, A. and Homan, S. (2009) ‘Cultural Precincts, Creative Spaces: Giving the Local a Musical Spin’, Space & Culture, 12(2): 148 – 65.
• Bennett, A. (2008) ‘Towards a cultural sociology of popular music’, Journal of Sociology, 4(4): 419 – 432.
• Bennett, A. (2008) ‘“Things They Do Look Awful Cool”: Ageing Rock Icons and Contemporary Youth Audiences’, Leisure/Loisir, 32(1): 259 – 278.
• Bennett, A., Stratton, J. and Peterson, R.A. (2008) ‘The scenes perspective and the Australian context’, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 22(5): 593 – 599.
• Bennett, A. (2007) ���The Forgotten Decade: Rethinking the Popular Music of the 1970s���, Popular Music History, vol. 2(1): pp. 5-24.
• Bennett, A. (2006) ���Punks Not Dead: The Significance of Punk Rock for an Older Generation of Fans���, Sociology, vol. 40(1): pp. 219-35.
• Bennett, A. (2005) ���Szubkult��r��k vagy neo-t��rzsek? A fiatalok, a st��lus ��s a zenei ��zl��s k��z��tti kapcsolat ��jragondol��sa���, Replika, vol. 53: pp. 127-43.
• Bennett, A. (2005) ���In Defence of Neo-Tribes: A Response to Blackman and Hesmondhalgh���, Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 8(2): pp.255-59.
• Bennett, A. (2004) ���Consolidating the Music Scenes Perspective���, Poetics, vol. 32: pp.223-34.
• Bennett, A. (2002) ���Estilos globais, interpreta����es locais: reconstruindo o ���local��� na sociologia da cultura juvenil���, Forum Sociol��gico, vol. 7/8(2): pp.49-67.
• Bennett, A. (2002) ���Researching Youth Culture and Popular Music: A Methodological Critique���, British Journal of Sociology, vol. 53 (3): pp.451-66.
• Bennett, A. (2002) ���Music, Media and Urban Mythscapes: A Study of the Canterbury Sound���, Media, Culture and Society, vol. 24 (1): pp.107-20.
• Bennett, A. (1999) ���Subcultures or Neo-Tribes?: Rethinking the relationship between youth, style and musical taste���, Sociology, vol. 33 (3): pp.599-617.
• Bennett, A. (1999) ���Rappin��� on the Tyne: White hip hop culture in Northeast England - an ethnographic study���, The Sociological Review, vol. 47(1): pp.1-24.
• Bennett, A. (1999) ���Hip hop am Main: The localisation of rap music and hip hop culture���, Media, Culture and Society, vol. 21(1): pp.77-91.
• Bennett, A. (1998) ���The Frankfurt ���Rockmobil���: A new insight into the significance of music-making for young people���, Youth and Policy, no. 60: pp.16-29.
• Bennett, A. (1997) ������Village greens and terraced streets���: Representations of ���Britishness��� in Britpop���, Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, vol. 5(4): pp.20-33.
• Bennett, A. (1997) ���Bhangra in Newcastle: Music, ethnic identity and the role of local knowledge���, Innovation: The European Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 10(1): pp.107-16.
• Bennett, A. (1997) ���Going down the pub: The pub rock scene as a resource for the consumption of popular music���, Popular Music, vol. 16 (1): pp.97-108.

Book chapters

• Bennett, A. (2009) ‘Spectacular soundtracks: Youth and music’, in A. Furlong (ed.) Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood. New Perspectives and Agendas. London: Routledge.
• Bennett, A. (2008) ‘‘Still Talking About My Generation!’ The Representation of Youth in Popular Music’, in P. Jamieson and D. Romer (eds) The Changing Portrayal of Adolescents in the Media and Why it Matters. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Bennett, A. (2008) ‘Popular Music, Media and the Narrativisation of Place’ in G. Bloustien, M. Peters and S. Luckman (eds) Sonic Synergies: Music, Identity. Technology and Community. Aldershot: Ashgate.
• Bennett, A. (2007) ������As Young As You Feel���: Youth as Cultural Discourse���, in P. Hodkinson and W. Dieke (eds) Youth Culture: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes. London: Routledge.
• Bennett, A. (2007) ���Sound: Music and the Spoken Word���, in I. Douglas, R. Huggett and C. Perkins (eds) The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography, vol. 2, 2nd edn. London: Routledge.
• Bennett, A. (2006) ���Even Better than the Real Thing? Understanding the Tribute Band Phenomenon���, in S. Homan (ed.) Access All Eras: Tribute Bands and Global Pop Culture, Buckingham, Open University Press.
• Bennett, A. (2006) ���Subcultures or Neo-Tribes?: Rethinking the relationship between youth, style and musical taste���, in A. Bennett, B. Shank and Toynbee (eds) The Popular Music Studies Reader, London: Routledge.
• Bennett, A. (2005) ���Subcultures or Neo-Tribes?: Rethinking the relationship between youth, style and musical taste���, in M. Hogg (ed.) Consumer Behaviour, London: Sage.
• Bennett, A. (2004) ���Hip Hop am Main, Rappin on the Tyne: Hip Hop Culture as a Local Construct in Two European Cities���, in M. Forman and M.A. Neal (eds) That���s The Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, London: Routledge.
• Bennett, A. (2004) ���Chilled Ibiza���: Dance Tourism and the Neo-Tribal Island Community���, in K. Dawe (ed.) Island Musics, Oxford, Berg.
• Bennett, A. (2004) ���New Tales from Canterbury: The Making of a Virtual Music Scene���, in A. Bennett, and R.A. Peterson (eds) Music Scenes: Local, Trans-Local and Virtual, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
• Bennett, A. (2004) ���Virtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet���, in A. Bennett and K. Kahn-Harris (eds) After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave.
• Bennett, A. (2004) ������Everybody���s happy, everybody���s free���: Representation and Nostalgia in the Woodstock Film���, in A. Bennett (ed.) Remembering Woodstock, Aldershot, Ashgate.
• Bennett, A. (2003) ���The Use of ���Insider��� Knowledge in Ethnographic Research on Contemporary Youth Music Scenes���, in A. Bennett, C. Cieslik and S. Miles (eds) Researching Youth, Basingstoke, Palgrave.
• Bennett, A. (2003) ���Hip Hop am Main: Die Lokalisierung von Rap-Musik und HipHop-Kultur���, in J. Androutsopoulos (ed.) HipHop: globale Kultur - lokale Praktiken. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag [Cultural Studies 3].
• Bennett, A. (2001) ���Plug in and Play! UK Indie Guitar Culture���, in A. Bennett and K. Dawe (eds) Guitar Cultures, Oxford, Berg.
• Bennett, A. (2001) ���Contemporary Youth Music and ���Risk��� Lifestyles���, in J. Best (ed.) How Claims Spread: Cross-National Diffusion of Social Problems, Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne, NY.
• Bennett, A. (2000) ���Local Interpretations of Global Music���, in N. Abercrombie and A. Warde (eds) The Contemporary British Society Reader, London, Polity.
• Bennett, A. (2000) ������Sitting in an English Garden���: Comparing representations of Britishness in the songs of the Beatles and 90s Britpop groups���, in I. Inglis (ed.) The Beatles, Popular Music and Society: A Thousand Voices, London, Macmillan.
• Bennett, A. (1998) ���Going Down the Pub: The pub rock scene as a resource for the consumption of popular music��� (abridged version), in T. Hautam��ki and H. J��rviluoma (eds) Music On Show: Issues of Performance, Tampere University, Finland.
• Bennett, A. (1998) ���Something old, something new: Expatriate musicians and musical authenticity���, in T. Mitsui (ed.) Popular Music: Intercultural Interpretations, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.

Guest editorships

• Bennett, A., Stratton, J. and Peterson, R.A. (eds) (2008) ‘Australian Music Scenes’. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 22(5).
• Bennett, A. (ed.) (2005) ���Popular Music and Leisure���. Leisure Studies, vol. 24, no. 4.