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Biography

Sean Albiez is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Southampton Solent University. He has lectured in popular music studies, music technology and media and cultural studies since 1991, and has been involved in electronic music making since the mid-1980s. He researches and writes on a range of subjects in the broad field of electronic popular music, and produces music as obe:lus. 



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Publications & PDFs

 
1996 - 'Popular Music and/in Digital Culture'  - unpublished MA dissertation: PDF
 
2003 - 'Sounds of Future Past: from Neu! to Numan' in Phleps, T and von Appen, R (eds.) POP SOUNDS: Klangtexturen in der Pop- und Rockmusik. Bielefelder, Germany:Transcript-Verlag: PDF
 
2003 - 'Know History! John Lydon, cultural capital and the prog/punk dialectic' in Popular Music. Vol 22. No 3. November 2003. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press: PDF
 
2003 - 'The Death of Rock?' in IQ. Vol 1. Issue 2. November 2003. Bristol: Intellect Publishing: PDF
 
2004 - 'Strands of the Future: France and the birth of electronica' in Volume!. 2004-1.Clermont-Ferrand, France: Editions Melanie Seteun: PDF
 
2004 - 'The Day the Music Died Laughing: Madonna & Country' in Hernandez, S F and Jarman, F (eds.) Madonna's Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations. (1982-2002). Abingdon: Ashgate Publishing: PDF
 
2004 - 'Punk after 'Punk' in the UK: 1978-1984' - unpublished book chapter from an American academic collection on punk & hardcore that unfortunately never materialised: PDF
 
2005 - ‘Post Soul Futurama: African American cultural politics and early Detroit Techno’ in European Journal of American Culture. Vol 24. No 2. 2005: PDF
 
2006 - 'Print the Truth, Not the Legend: Sex Pistols, Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 4 June 1976’ in Inglis, I. (ed.) Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time. Abingdon: Ashgate Publishing: PDF
 
2011 - with Kyrre Tromm Lindvig - 'Autobahn and Heimatklänge: soundtracking the FRG' in Albiez, S. and Pattie, D. (eds.) Kraftwerk - Music Non-Stop. New York: Continuum International Publishing
 
2011 - 'Europe Non-Stop: West Germany, Britain and the Rise of Synthpop 1975-1981' in Albiez, S. and Pattie, D. (eds.) Kraftwerk - Music Non-Stop. New York: Continuum International Publishing
 
2011 - Albiez, S. and Pattie, D. (eds.) Kraftwerk - Music Non-Stop. New York: Continuum International Publishing

2011 - 'Post Soul Futurama: African American cultural politics and early Detroit Techno' in Mark J. Butler (ed.) Electronica, Dance and Club Music [The Library of Essays on Popular Music]. Abingdon: Ashgate Publishing

2012 - 'Kraftwerk', 'Television', 'The Police', and 'Jonathan Richman' entries in The Grove Dictionary of American Music (Second Edition)
 
Forthcoming 2012 - 'Electronica', 'Electronic Body Music (EBM)', 'Electronic Dance Music (EDM)', 'Dubstep', 'Hi-NRG', 'Techno' and 'Chillout' entries in Sheperd, J., Horn, D. and Laing, D. (eds.) The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: International Music Genres Volume. New York: Continuum International Publishing