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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Media industries/cultural industries/creative industries
All aspects of media and cultural production, contemporary and historical
Music, society and culture, including popular music
Social theory and theories of media, and the relations between them
Media work, employment, careers etc
Media and cultural policy
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students in these and in any related areas.
I am Director of the Media Industries Research Centre, which acts as a forum for research in this area at the University of Leeds, and Programme Director of the MA in Media Industries. I am also Deputy Director of Research in the Institute of Communications Studies.
My book The Cultural Industries (Sage) is an analysis of changes and continuities in the television, film, music, publishing and other industries since the 1980s, and of the rise of new media and cultural industries during that time. The second edition, published in March 2007, is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded version of the first, published in 2002.
A recent book, co-edited with Jason Toynbee, on The Media and Social Theory (Routledge) derives from the conviction that we need to enrich the intellectual resources being brought to bear on the media and that one valuable way to do this would be for media analysts to engage much more seriously with social theory.
I am currently writing up (with my colleague Dr Sarah Baker, of Griffith University) a research project on Creative Work in the Cultural Industries, which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2006 to 2008. Various articles have appeared based on this project, with more on the way - see below - and we are in the process of completing a monograph.
Much of my research has been about music; further details are below. I'm writing a book for Blackwell called The Politics of Music, due in 2011.
I worked in the Sociology department of the Open University from 1999 to 2007, and was production course team chair of the Open University's media studies course Understanding Media (DA204), which began running in 2006. This involved co-ordinating the writing and editing of five introductory books on the media, four of which are co-published by Open University Press and the Open University.
Finally, in answer to a question I'm often asked, it's pronounced 'Hez-mun-dalch' with the stress on the first syllable. But nearly everyone gets it wrong, and I really don't mind. The name comes from East Lancashire, and so do I.
AUTHORED BOOKS
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) The Cultural Industries, 2nd ed., London, Los Angeles and New Delhi: Sage, 360pp, ISBN 978-1-4129-0808-5 (Translated into Italian as Le industrie culturali (Milan: Egea, 2008)
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2002) The Cultural Industries, London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi: Sage
Translated into complex Chinese (Taipei: Weber Publications, 2005); simple Chinese (Beijing: Renman University of China Press, 2007)
OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Edited Books
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Toynbee, J. (eds) (2008) The Media and Social Theory, Abingdon and New York: Routledge
Hesmondhalgh, D. (ed.) (2006) Media Production, Maidenhead and Milton Keynes: The Open University Press/The Open University
Evans, J. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (eds) (2005) Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity, Maidenhead and Milton Keynes: The Open University Press/The Open University
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Negus, K. (eds) (2002) Popular Music Studies, London: Arnold
Born, G. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (eds) (2000) Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press
Refereed Journal Articles
Banks, M. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (2009) 'Looking for Work in Creative Industries Policy', forthcoming in International Journal of Cultural Policy 15(4).
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2009) 'My Media Studies: A Few of My Favourite Things', Television and New Media, 10(1): 86-7.
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Baker, S. (2008) 'Creative Work and Emotional Labour in the Television Industry', Theory, Culture and Society 25 (7-8): 97-118.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2008) 'Towards a Critical Understanding of Music, Emotion and Self-Identity', Consumption, Markets and Culture 11(4): 329-343.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) 'Audiences and Everyday Aesthetics: Talking About Good and Bad Music', European Journal of Cultural Studies 10(4): 507-27.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) 'Musique, émotion et individualisation', Réseaux vol. 25, no. 141-2, pp. 203-230.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) 'Bourdieu, The Media and Cultural Production', Media, Culture and Society 28(2): 211-32.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) 'Digital Sampling and Cultural Inequality', Social and Legal Studies 5(1): 53-76.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) 'Media and Cultural Policy as Public Policy: the Case of the British Labour Government', International Journal of Cultural Policy 11(1): 95-109.
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Pratt, A.C. (2005) 'Cultural Industries and Cultural Policy', International Journal of Cultural Policy 11(1): 1-13.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) 'Subcultures, Scenes or Tribes? None of the Above', Journal of Youth Studies 8(1): 21-40.
Book Chapters and Working Papers
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2009) 'Music, Digitalisation and Copyright', in Golding, P. and Murdock, G. (eds), Understanding Digital Dynamics, New York: Hampton Press. In press.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2009) 'The Digitalisation of Music', in Pratt, A.C. and Jeffcut, P. (eds), Creativity and Innovation in the Cultural Economy. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2009) 'Politics, Theory and Method in Media Industries Research', in Holt, J. and Perren, A. (eds), Media Industries: History, Theory, Method. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2008) 'Industries culturelles et études culturelles (anglophones)', in Glevarec, H., Mace, E. and Maigret, E. (eds), Anthologie Cultural Studies. Paris: Armand Colin-INA.
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Toynbee, J. (2008) 'Why Media Studies Needs Better Social Theory', in Hesmondhalgh, D. and Toynbee, J. (eds), The Media and Social Theory. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2008) 'Neoliberalism, Imperialism and the Media', in Hesmondhalgh, D. and Toynbee, J. (eds), The Media and Social Theory. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2008) 'Cultural and Creative Industries', in Bennett, T. and Frow, J. (eds) The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis. London and Los Angeles: Sage.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) 'Creative Labour as a Basis for Critique of Creative Industries Policy', in Lovink, G. and Rossiter, N. (eds) MyCreativity Reader. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) 'Some Key Terms in Recent Youth Cultural Studies: Critical Reflections from the Sociology of Music', in Hodkinson, P. and Deicke, W. (eds), Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 9780415376129
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) 'Digitalisation, Music and Copyright', ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Working Paper number 30.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) 'Discourse Analysis and Content Analysis', in Gillespie, M. and Toynbee, J. (eds) Analysing Media Texts, Maidenhead and Milton Keynes: The Open University Press/The Open University, pp. 119-156. ISBN0-335-21886-5
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) 'Inside Media Organizations: Production, Autonomy and Power', in Hesmondhalgh, D. (ed.) (2006) Media Production, Maidenhead and Milton Keynes: The Open University Press/The Open University, pp. 49-90. ISBN 0-335-21884-9
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) 'The Production of Media Entertainment', in Curran, J. and Gurevitch, M. (eds) Mass Media and Society, 4th edn., London, Hodder Arnold. ISBN 0340884991
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) 'Producing Celebrity', in Evans, J. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (eds) (2005) Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity, Maidenhead and Milton Keynes: The Open University Press/The Open University, pp. 97-134. ISBN 0-335-21880-6
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2003) 'Post-Fordism, Flexibility and the Music Industries', (reprint) in Frith, S. (ed.) Popular Music (Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies), London and New York, Routledge. ISBN 0415299055
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2003) 'Cultural Imperialism', in Shepherd, J. Horn, D. Laing, D. Oliver, P. and Wicke, P. (eds) The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, vol. 1: Media, Industry and Society, London and New York, Continuum. ISBN 0826463215
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Negus, K. (2002) 'Popular Music Studies: Meaning, Power and Value', in Hesmondhalgh, D. and Negus, K. (eds) Popular Music Studies, London: Arnold, pp. 1-10, ISBN 0-340-76248-9 (50% contribution)
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2002) 'Popular Music Audiences and Everyday Life', in Hesmondhalgh, D. and Negus, K. (eds) Popular Music Studies, London: Arnold, pp. 117-30, ISBN 0-340-76248-9
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Melville, C. (2001) 'Urban Breakbeat Culture: Repercussions of Hip Hop in the UK', in Tony Mitchell (ed.) Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA, Hanover, CT and London: Wesleyan University Press, pp. 86-110, ISBN 0-8195-6502-4. [60% contribution]
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2001) 'British Popular Music and National Identity', in Morley, D. and Robins, K. (eds) British Cultural Studies, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 273-86, ISBN 0198742061
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2000) 'The Dance Music Industry', in Abercrombie, N. and Warde, A. (eds) The Contemporary British Society Reader, Cambridge: Polity, 195-204, ISBN 07456 22361 [reprint]
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2000) 'International Times: Fusions, Exoticism and Antiracism in Electronic Dance Music', in Born, G. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (eds) Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, pp 280-304, ISBN 0-520-22084-6
Born, G. and Hesmondhalgh, D. 'Introduction: On Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music', Born, G. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (eds) Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, pp. 1-58, ISBN 0-520-22084-6 [35% contribution]
SELECTED OTHER WRITING
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2009) ‘Review of Richard Middleton, Voicing the Popular: On the Subjects of Popular Music’, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 21 (3): 316-20.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2008) 'Review of Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music', Times Higher Education, 21 February.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2008) 'Rock History and Visual Culture', Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 14 February.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) 'Television, Film and Creative Labor', Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 6 December.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) 'The Open University, Media Studies and New Times', Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 13 January.
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2001) 'Ownership is only part of the media picture', openDemocracy, 8 (November 2001).
CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
Anna Zoellner
Daniel Mutibwa
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