Good (academically grounded) books about music blogging, are there any?

I guess being on the ground floor is good.

ronan you should be at the same conference as Tom, then you could just write down the discussion panel and submit that ;)

I guess I can use footnotes and refer to websites, it just might be tricky finding meta-stuff on all the weblogs, though from memory I think there has been a decent amount, maybe on blissblog and elsewhere too.

I suppose if anyone knows of any blogger or writer taking a particularly academic look at the whole thing that'd be helpful too. As I say I'm not totally bereft of ideas, but just trying to get started!

x-post yeah true Steve, maybe there'll be some documentation of that I can use!

i have to say i wd argue that the net as a whole = almost by-defn a problem area for the "real facts = footnoteable citations" wing of academic thinking

-- mark s (mar...), April 14th, 2005.

yes they have but they haven't been PUBLISHED yet grrrrrr!!!!!

(or read the entire interweb)

the on-panel presence reflects a certain self-defined understanding of the phenom-as-a-whole, which is interestin in itself

(cf also is ilx a tiny unknown corner of the web, or a world-historical intervention as understood by later ages, or sumfink a bit in-between)

do me a favour, fink: throw it hard!

http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2004/10/bloggertation-as-we-remove-our-pop.html

BLOGGERTATION: As we remove our Pop Papers hat for another week, this seems to be a good point to mention the Dissertation Blog, which is - as the name would imply - a dissertation published in blogform, by featherboa. It's the first - as far as I know - academic study of music weblogs, which includes this one as one of the case studies. It's really worth a read if you're interested in the future of the music press

It's Masters degree leval dissertation on Music Blogs from a Journalism student.

Dissertation Blog
"A different kind of Criticism": Music Journalism and the Weblog Phenomenon
http://dissblog.blogspot.com/

International Association for the Study of Popular Music
http://www.iaspm.net/iaspm/

IASPM is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. Founded in 1981, IASPM has grown into an international network of more that 700 members world-wide. On national and international levels, the organization's activities include conferences, publications, and research projects designed to advance an understanding of popular music and the processes involved in its production and consumption. To build a large and diverse body of knowledge of popular music, IASPM is an organization which is both interprofessional and interdisciplinary. It welcomes as members anyone involved with popular music. To preserve its autonomy, the association remains independent of all commercial and governmental interests.

i think he'd rather see himself alongside meltzer and bangs. it's REALLY good, that book. but i don't really think it's useful in a paper. :-(