Professor Michael Pickering
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BOOKS
| VILLAGE SONG AND CULTURE, Croom Helm, London and Canberra, 1982. (This book was awarded the 1983 Katharine Briggs Memorial Award for ‘outstanding scholarship in its field’.) |  |
| EVERYDAY CULTURE: POPULAR SONG AND THE VERNACULAR MILIEU, ed., with Tony Green, Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, 1987. | |
| ACTS OF SUPREMACY: THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE STAGE, 1790-1930, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1991 (with Richard Cave, J.S. Bratton, Heidi Holder and Brendan Gregory). |  |
| HISTORY, EXPERIENCE AND CULTURAL STUDIES, Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1997. |  |
| RESEARCHING COMMUNICATIONS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO METHODS IN MEDIA AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS, Arnold, London, and Oxford University Press, New York, 1999 (with David Deacon, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock). |  |
| STEREOTYPING: THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION, Palgrave (previously Macmillan), Basingstoke and London, 2001. |  |
| CREATIVITY, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURAL VALUE, Sage, London, Thousand Hills, New Delhi, 2004 (with Keith Negus). |  |
| RESEARCHING COMMUNICATIONS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO METHODS IN MEDIA AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS, 2nd edition, Hodder Arnold, London, 2007 (with David Deacon, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock). | |
| BEYOND A JOKE: THE LIMITS OF HUMOUR, ed., with Sharon Lockyer, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. |  |
| STEREOTIPI: L’ALTRO, LA NAZIONE, LO STRANIERO, Firenze and Roma: Mediascape Edizioni, 2005. | |
| BLACKFACE MINSTRELSY IN BRITAIN, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. |  |
| RESEARCH METHODS IN CULTURAL STUDIES, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. |  |
| POPULAR CULTURE VOL 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POPULAR CULTURE, ed. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010. | |
| POPULAR CULTURE VOL 2: FROM MASS CULTURE CRITIQUE TO POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, ed. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010. | |
| POPULAR CULTURE VOL 3: CULTURAL FORMATIONS AND SOCIAL RELATIONS, ed. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010. | |
| POPULAR CULTURE VOL 4: AESTHETICS, ETHICS, VALUES, ed. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010. |
CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
‘Mass Media and National Culture: Structure, Content, Values, Impact’ in J. Halloran, ed, Mass Media and National Cultures, IAMCR/UNESCO, 1980, pp. 25-38.
‘A Revolutionary Materialist with a Leg Free: The Autobiographical Novels of Jack Common’, in J. Hawthorn, ed., The British Working Class Novel in the Twentieth Century, Edward Arnold, London, 1984 (with Kevin Robins).
‘The Making of a Working Class Writer: An Interview with Sid Chaplin’ in J. Hawthorn, ed., as above (with Kevin Robins).
‘White Skin, Black Masks: “Nigger” Minstrelsy in Victorian England’, in J.S. Bratton, ed., Music Hall: Style and Performance , Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, 1986, pp. 70-91.
‘Authorship in Documentary: Sociology as an Art Form in Mass Observation' in J. Corner, ed., Documentary and the Mass Media, Edward Arnold, London, 1986, pp. 28-44 (with David Chaney).
‘Song and Social Context’ in I. Russell, ed., Singer, Song and Scholar, Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1986, pp. 73-93.
‘The Dogma of Authenticity in the Experience of Popular Music’ in G. McGregor and R.S. White, eds., The Art of Listening, Croom Helm, London, 1986, pp. 201-20.
‘Propaganda, Information and Social Control’ in J. Hawthorn, ed., Propaganda and Persuasion, Edward Arnold, London, 1987 (with Kevin Robins and Frank Webster).
‘Towards a Cartography of the Vernacular Milieu’ (with Tony Green) in M. Pickering and T. Green, eds. Everyday Culture , Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, 1987, pp. 1-38
‘Studying the Everyday Arts’ (with Tony Green) in M. Pickering and T. Green eds. Everyday Culture , Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, 1987, pp. 173-178.
‘The Past as a Source of Aspiration: Popular Song and Social Change’ in M. Pickering and T. Green eds. Everyday Culture , Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, 1987, pp. 39-69.
‘“A Jet Ornament to Society”: Black Musicians in Nineteenth Century Britain’ in Paul Oliver, ed., Black Music in Britain, Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, 1990, pp. 16-33.
‘Mock Blacks and Racial Mockery: the “Nigger” Minstrel and British Imperialism’ in M. Pickering et. al., Acts of Supremacy, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1991, pp. 179-236.
‘Music Hall Entertainment in the Nineties’ in George A. Cevasco, ed. The 1890s, An Encyclopaedia of British Literature, Art and Culture, New York: Garland, 1993, pp. 413-14.
‘Struggling to Make Ourselves Heard: Music, Radio and the Quota Debate’ in Philip Hayward, et. al. eds., North Meets South, Popular Music in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Perfect Beat Publications, Umina, Australia, 1994, pp. 73-97 (with Roy Shuker)
‘Beauty and the Beast: Sex and Death in the Tabloid Press’ in D.Field, J.Hockey and N.Small, eds. Death, Gender and Ethnicity, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, pp. 124-141 (with Jane Littlewood and Tony Walter).
‘Heard the One About the White Middle Class Heterosexual Father-in-Law ? Gender, Ethnicity and Political Correctness in Comedy’ in Steve Wagg, ed. Because I Tell A Joke or Two, Comedy, Politics and Identity, Routledge, 1998 (with Jane Littlewood).
‘Good Wives and Wicked Women’ in Littlewood, J. ed. Misconstruing the Feminine: Social Change and Social Control, London: Macmillan, 2001 (with Littlewood, J. and Walter, T.)
‘History, Cultural Studies and Tradition’ in Laurence Raw, ed. The History of Culture and the Culture of History, Ankara: The British Council, 1998.
‘Death in the News’ in Donna Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson and Jeanne Samson Katz, eds. Death, Dying and Bereavement, London, Thousand Hills, New Delhi: Sage, 2000 (with Jane Littlewood, and Tony Walter)
‘Creativity and Musical Experience’ in David Hesmondhalgh and Keith Negus, eds. Popular Music Studies, London: Arnold, 2002 (with Keith Negus).
‘Racial Stereotypes’ in Gary Taylor and Steve Spencer, eds. Perspectives on Social Identity, Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University Press, pp. 91-106.
‘The Blackface Clown’ in Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, ed. Black Victorians – Black Victoriana, New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
‘Bigotry’ in Ellis Cashmore, ed. Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies, London and New York: Routledge, 2004, pp. 53-7.
‘Qualitative Content Analysis’ in Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Alan Bryman and Tim Futing Liao, eds. The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage, 2004, 3 vols., Vol. 3, pp. 889-90.
‘Text’ in Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Alan Bryman and Tim Futing Liao, eds. The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage, 2004, 3 vols., Vol. 3, pp. 1120-21.
‘George Henry Elliott’, in Brian Harrison, ed. New Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
‘The Inescapably Social Concept of Stereotyping’ in Anthony Barker, ed. The Power and Persistence of Stereotyping – O Poder e a Persistência dos Esteriótipos, Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro, 2004, pp. 21-32.
‘Racial Stereotypes’ in Gary Taylor and Steve Spencer, eds. Social Identities: Multi-disciplinary Approaches, London and New York: Routledge.
‘The Ethics and Aesthetics of Humour and Comedy’ in Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering, eds. Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 1-24 (with Sharon Lockyer).
‘Breaking the Mould: Conversations with Omid Djalili and Shazia Mirza’ in Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering, eds. Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 98-125 (with Sharon Lockyer).
‘The Ambiguities of Comic Impersonation’ in Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering, eds. Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 180-97 (with Sharon Lockyer).
‘Stereotypes and Stereotyping’ in George Ritzer, ed. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 10 vols., 2007, pp. 4773-8.
‘Experience and the Social World’ in Michael Pickering, ed. Research Methods for Cultural Studies, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008, pp. 17-31.
‘Engaging with History’ in Michael Pickering, ed. Research Methods for Cultural Studies, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008, pp. 193-213.
‘Echoes and Reverberations: Photography and Phonography as Historical Forms’ in Siân Nicholas, Tom O’Malley and Kevin Williams, eds. Reconstructing the Past: History in the Mass Media 1890-2005, London and New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 153-68.
‘The Birth of Distance: Communications and Changing Conceptions of Elsewhere’ in Michael Bailey, ed. Narrating Media History, London and New York: Routledge, 2009, pp. 171-83.
‘Minstrelsy (International)’ in John Shepherd and David Horn, eds. Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, London: Continuum, 2009 forthcoming.
‘Studying Popular Culture’ in Michael Pickering, ed. Popular Culture Vol 1: Historical Perspectives on Popular Culture, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010, pp. xxi-xxxvi.
‘Social Power and Symbolic Sites’ in Michael Pickering, ed. Popular Culture Vol 2: Popular Culture – From Mass Culture Critique to Popular Culture Studies, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010, pp. 305-34.
‘Cultural Studies and the Challenge to English’ in Michael Pickering, ed. Popular Culture Vol 2: Popular Culture – From Mass Culture Critique to Popular Culture Studies, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010, pp. 334-60.
‘Creativity, Popular Culture and Musical Experience’ in Michael Pickering, ed. Popular Culture Vol 2: Popular Culture – From Mass Culture Critique to Popular Culture Studies, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010, pp. 397-414 (with Keith Negus).
‘The Value of Value: Simon Frith and the Aesthetics of the Popular’ in Michael Pickering, ed. Popular Culture Vol 4: Popular Culture – Aesthetics, Ethics, Values, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010, pp. 145-66 (with Keith Negus).
‘Dear Shit-Shovellers: Humour, Censure and the Discourse of Complaint’ in Michael Pickering, ed. Popular Culture Vol 4: Popular Culture – Aesthetics, Ethics, Values, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010, pp. 227-46 (with Sharon Lockyer).
‘You Must Be Joking: The Sociological Critique of Humour and Comic Media’ in Michael Pickering, ed. Popular Culture Vol 4: Popular Culture – Aesthetics, Ethics, Values, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington D.C.: Sage, 2010, pp. 247-58 (with Sharon Lockyer).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Janet Blunt: Folk Song Collector and Lady of the Manor’, Folk Music Journal, 3, 2, 1976. pp. 114-49.
‘The Four Angels of the Wind: Popular Cosmology in a Victorian Village’, Southern Folklore Quarterly, 45, 1981, pp. 1-18.
‘Schooling Children in Edwardian England’, Cake and Cockhorse, 8,8, Spring 1982, pp. 232-40.
‘“Good News from Home”: Notes on the Problem of Identification in Song Performance and Reception’, Folk Song Research, 1:4, March 1983, pp. 39-41.
‘Mischief, Pranks and Spare Time: Aspects of the Leisure of Edwardian Village Youth’, Cake and Cockhorse, 9:4, Autumn 1983, pp. 98-111.
‘The Farmworker and “The Farmer’s Boy”’, Lore and Language, 3:9, July 1983, pp. 44-64.
‘Popular Song at Juniper Hill’, Folk Music Journal, 4:5, 1984, pp. 481-503.
‘Bartholomew Callow: Village Musician’, Musical Traditions, 6, Spring 1986, pp. 12-23.
‘Communication and Democracy: Mass Observation, 1937-45’, Journal of Communication, 36:1, Winter 1986, pp. 41-56 (with David Chaney).
‘Youth in Postwar British Fiction: The Fifties and Sixties’, Youth and Policy, 23, Winter 1987/88 (with David Glover).
‘The Study of Vernacular Song and Culture in Britain’, Jahrbuch Fur Volksliedforschung, 1988, pp. 95-104.
‘Dangerous Desires: Youth, Class and Sexuality in the Work of Sid Chaplin’, Ideas and Production, 9-10, 1989, pp.85-104 (with Kevin Robins).
‘Between Determinism and Disruption: the Newcastle Novels of Sid Chaplin’, College English, 51: 4, April 1989, pp. 357-376 (with Kevin Robins).
‘Recent Folk Song Scholarship in England: a Critique’, Folk Music Journal, 6:1, 1990, pp. 37-64.
‘Mass Communications and the Quest for Cultural Identity’, Sites, 21, Spring 1990, pp. 44-63.
‘Separating the Sheep from the Goats: Some Problems with the Stereotype’, Delta, 45, March 1991, pp. 91-98.
‘Social Power and Symbolic Sites: In the Tracks of Cultural Studies’, Sites, 23, Summer 1991, pp. 3-32.
‘We Want the Airwaves: The New Zealand Music Quota Debate’, Illusions, 18, Summer 1992, pp. 40-44.
‘The Call of Coronation Street’, North and South (New Zealand) March 1992.
‘Cultural Studies and the Challenge to English’, Sites, 24, Autumn 1992, pp. 55-78.
‘Radio Gaga: Popular Music and the Radio Quota Debate in New Zealand’, New Zealand Sociology, 8:1, May 1993, pp. 21-59 (with Roy Shuker).
‘Tune Power’, Folk Roots, No 133, July 1994, pp. 42-45.
‘Race, Gender and Broadcast Comedy: The Case of the BBC’s Kentucky Minstrels’, European Journal of Communication, 9, 1994, pp. 311-333.
‘Kiwi Rock: Popular Music and Cultural Identity in New Zealand’, Popular Music, 13:3, October 1994, pp. 261-278 (with Roy Shuker).
‘Death in the News: The Public Invigilation of Private Emotion’, Sociology, (November 1995) (with Jane Littlewood and Tony Walter).
‘The BBC’s Kentucky Minstrels, 1933-1950: Blackface Entertainment on British Radio’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 16: 2, June 1996, pp. 161-95.
‘John Bull in Blackface’, Popular Music, 16: 2, May 1997, pp. 181-201.
‘On the Value of Value: Simon Frith and the Aesthetics of the Popular’, New Formations (34, Summer 1998), pp. 109-126 (with Keith Negus)
‘ “A Happy Instinct for Sentiment”: A Profile of Harry Hunter’, Cahiers du Victoriens et Edouardiens, 50, Octobre 1999 – “La Musique Populaire des Îles Britanniques, 1835-1915”, ed. Claude Chastagner – pp. 71-102.
‘History as Horizon: Gadamer, Tradition and Critique’, Rethinking History, 3:2, Summer 1999, pp. 177-195.
‘In Search of Sociological Distinctiveness’, New Zealand Sociology, 14: 2, November 1999, pp. 254-57.
‘Creativity and Cultural Production’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 6:2, 2000, pp. 259-282 (with Keith Negus). [ISSN: 1028-6632]
‘Dear Shit-shovellers: Humour, Censure and the Discourse of Complaint’, Discourse and Society, 12: 5, September 2001, pp. 633-651 (with Sharon Lockyer).
‘Eugene Stratton and Early Ragtime in Britain’, Black Music Research Journal, 20:2, Fall 2002, pp. 153-76.
‘Experience as Horizon: Koselleck, Expectation and Historical Time’, Cultural Studies, 18:2/3, March/May, 2004, pp. 271-289.
‘Rethinking Creative Genius’, Popular Music, 23:2, 2004, pp. 198-203 (with Keith Negus).
‘ “We Sang Ourselves Through That War”: Women, Music and Factory Work in World War Two’, Labour History Review, 70:2, August 2005, pp. 185-214 (with Marek Korcyznski, Emma Robertson and Keith Jones).
‘No, But Seriously’, Interview by Charlie Peverett, HERO, 1 March 2006 (with Sharon Lockyer).
‘For the Record: Popular Music and Photography as Technologies of Memory’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9:2, June 2006, pp. 131-47 (with Emily Keightley).
‘The Modalities of Nostalgia’, Current Sociology, Vol 54, No. 6, November 2006, pp. 919-41 (with Emily Keightley).
‘Rhythms of Labour: The British Work Song Revisited’, Folk Music Journal, 9:2, 2007, pp. 226-45 (with Emma Robertson and Marek Korcynski).
‘Harmonious Relations? Music at Work in the Rowntree and Cadbury Factories’, Business History, 49:2, March 2007, pp. 211-234 (with Emma Robertson and Marek Korcynski).
‘Echoes and Reverberations: Photography and Phonography as Historical Forms’, Media History, 13, 2/3, August/December 2007, pp. 273-88 (with Emily Keightley).
‘Les Deux Voies du Passé: Le Ressouvenir, Entre Progrès et Perte’ [The Past Has Two Paths: Mnemonics of Gain and Loss’, Cahiers de Recherche Sociologique, 44, September 2007, pp. 83-96 (with Emily Keightley).
‘“And Spinning So With Voices Meet, Like Nightingales They Sung Full Sweet”: Unravelling Representations of Singing in Pre-industrial Textile Production’, Cultural and Social History, 5:1, March 2008, pp. 11-31 (with Emma Robertson and Marek Korcynski).
‘You Must Be Joking: The Sociological Critique of Humour and Comic Media’, Sociology Compass, 2/3, 2008, pp. 808-20 (with Sharon Lockyer).
‘The Last British Work Songs: Music, Community and Class in the Kent Hop Fields of the Early-Mid 20th Century’, Management and Organizational History, 3:1, 2008, pp. 81-102 (with Marek Korcynski and Emma Robertson).
‘Sex in the Sun: Racial Stereotypes and Tabloid News’, Social Semiotics, 18:3, September 2008, pp. 363-375.
‘Trauma, Discourse and Communicative Limits’, Critical Discourse Studies, 6:4, November 2009, pp. 237-49 (with Emily Keightley).
REVIEW ARTICLES AND REVIEW FORUMS
‘The Politics and Psychology of Stereotyping’, Media, Culture and Society, 17: 4, 1995, pp. 691-700.
‘Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City’, Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, vol. 5, December 1999, pp. 168-181.
‘The Politics of Experience’, New Formations, 58, Spring 2006, pp. 157-161.