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David Hesmondhalgh

David Hesmondhalgh is a British sociologist. He is currently Professor of Media, Music and Culture at the University of Leeds. His research focusses on the media and cultural industries, critical approaches to media in the digital age, and the sociology of music.

Biography

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Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media, Music and Culture at the University of Leeds. His interests include the cultural and creative industries, cultural policy, the politics of musical experience, and how 'cultural platforms' are transforming media. He joined the University of Leeds in 2007,[1] having previously worked at The Open University for eight years.

He obtained a PhD from Goldsmiths University of London in 1996 for his dissertation on British independent record companies, where he was supervised by Georgina Born.

His books include The Cultural Industries, first published in 2002, described by Herbert et al. in their Media Industry Studies as "a formative text for many who began their research careers at the start of the century" and as "extensively updated to keep pace with the new issues developing in an era of social and internet-distributed media".[2][3] Oakley and O'Connor describe the same book as "the most comprehensive overview of the literature and issues in the field" of cultural and creative industries.[4] He is acknowledged as a key figure in developing the "cultural industries" approach to media, which emphasises the complex and contradictory nature of cultural production under capitalism.[5] He is frequently named as one of the leading analysts of cultural labour, partly based on his book Creative Labour, co-written with Sarah Baker.[6] He is also well-known for his work on the sociology of music, especially his book Why Music Matters (2013), which provides a "nuanced case for music’s value in contributing to intimate and collective 'human flourishing'".[7][8]

Personal life

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He is the brother of actor and activist Julie Hesmondhalgh and the father of actor and writer Rosa Hesmondhalgh. His long-term partner is the British philosopher Helen Steward.

Books

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  • Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) ISBN 0-520-22084-6[9]
  • Popular Music Studies (London: Arnold, 2002). Eds. D. Hesmondhalgh and K. Negus[10]
  • Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity (Maidenhead Open University Press, 2005). Eds. J. Evans and D. Hesmondhalgh. ISBN 0-335-21880-6
  • Media Production (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006), ISBN 0-335-21884-9[11][12]
  • The Media and Social Theory (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008). Eds. D Hesmondhalgh, J. Toynbee. ISBN 978-0-415-44800-0.[13]
  • Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (London and New York: Routledge, 2010). D. Hesmondhalgh and S. Baker. ISBN 978-0-415-67773-8[14][15]
  • Why Music Matters (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). ISBN 978-1-4051-9241-5[16][17]
  • Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) D. Hesmondhalgh, K. Oakley, D. Lee, M. Nisbett. ISBN 978-1-137-42638-3[18]
  • Media and Society, 6th edition (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019). Eds. J. Curran and D. Hesmondhalgh. ISBN 978-1-501-34073-4[19]
  • The Cultural Industries, 4th edition (London and Los Angeles: Sage, 2019). ISBN 978-1-5264-24105[20]

Selected publications

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  • Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) ‘The production of media entertainment’, in Curran, J. and Gurevitch, M. (eds.), Mass Media and Society, 4th edn., London, Hodder Arnold, pp. 153–71.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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, pp. 245–55.
  • Hesmondhalgh, D. (2016) ‘Exploitation and media labor’, in Richard Maxwell (ed), The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 30–39.
  • Hesmondhalgh, D. (2017) ‘The media’s failure to represent the working class: explanations from media production and beyond’, in June Deery and Andrea Press (eds.), The Media and Class (New York: Routledge), pp. 21–37.
  • Hesmondhalgh, D. (2017) ‘Why it matters when big tech firms extend their power into media content’, The Conversation, 15 November.
  • Hesmondhalgh, D. (2017) ‘British election nights, despair and hope: a personal history’, Social Text Online, 20 June.
  • Hesmondhalgh, D. (2019) ‘The British General Election: the nightmare before Christmas’, Social Text Online, 13 December.

References

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  1. ^ AHC. "Professor David Hesmondhalgh". University of Leeds.
  2. ^ Herbert, Lotz and Punathambekar, Media Industry Studies (Cambridge: Polity, 2020, p. 4).
  3. ^ Herbert, Daniel; Lotz, Amanda D.; Punathambekar, Aswin (2 June 2020). Media Industry Studies. ISBN 978-1509537778.
  4. ^ Kate Oakley and Justin O'Connor, The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries (London: Routledge, 2015) p. 12.
  5. ^ E.g. Aphra Kerr, Global Games (London: Routledge, 2016) p. 4, Anamik Saha, Race and the Cultural Industries (Cambridge: Polity, 2018), p. 25.
  6. ^ E.g. Mark Banks, Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017, pp. 5, 151)
  7. ^ David Wilkinson, Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), p. 3.
  8. ^ Fox, Aaron A. "Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh, eds. "Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music" (Book Review)". University of California Press.
  9. ^ Bellman, Jonathan (1 March 2002). "Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representations, and Appropriations in Music (review)". Notes. 58 (3): 567–569. doi:10.1353/not.2002.0005. ISSN 1534-150X. S2CID 191362289.
  10. ^ Moore, Allan (2003). "Review of Popular Music Studies". Popular Music. 22 (3): 386–390. doi:10.1017/S0261143003243257. ISSN 0261-1430. JSTOR 3877586. S2CID 162146674.
  11. ^ Noonan, Caitriona (1 May 2008). "Book Review: David Hesmondhalgh (ed.), Media Production. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 2006". Media, Culture & Society. 30 (3): 425–427. doi:10.1177/0163443708088796. ISSN 0163-4437. S2CID 144725517.
  12. ^ Noonan, Caitriona. "Book Review: David Hesmondhalgh (ed.), Media Production. Milton Keynes". Media, Culture & Society.
  13. ^ West, Emily. "David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee (Eds.), The Media and Social Theory". International Journal of Communication.
  14. ^ Bielby, Denise D. (1 August 2012). "Book Review: Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries". Work and Occupations. 39 (3): 282–284. doi:10.1177/0730888412443223. ISSN 0730-8884. S2CID 146886158.
  15. ^ Proctor-Thomson, Sarah B (1 April 2013). "Book review: David Hesmondhalgh and Sarah Baker, Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries". Work, Employment and Society. 27 (2): 371–372. doi:10.1177/0950017012470981. ISSN 0950-0170. S2CID 143975408.
  16. ^ Zhongwei, Li (2016). "Book Review: Why Music Matters by David Hesmondhalgh". Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. 9 (2). doi:10.31165/nk.2016.92.433.
  17. ^ Dueck, Byron (2016). "David Hesmondhalgh, Why Music Matters (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2013), ISBN: 978-1-4051-9241-5 (pb)". Twentieth-Century Music. 13 (2): 321–326. doi:10.1017/S1478572216000074. ISSN 1478-5722. S2CID 163841229.
  18. ^ "Book Review: Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour by David Hesmondhalgh, Kate Oakley, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett". LSE Review of Books. 29 November 2016.
  19. ^ "James Curran and David Hesmondhalgh (eds), Media and Society". European Journal of Communication. 34 (4): 467–468. 1 August 2019. doi:10.1177/0267323119863867g. ISSN 0267-3231. S2CID 202165755.
  20. ^ McCurdy, Patrick M. "Cultural Studies". Topia. 12: 152. doi:10.3138/topia.12.152.
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