Martin Cloonan
Ph.D, M.A., B.A.
martin.cloonan@utu.fi +358 29 450 3951 +358 50 464 5411 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku Office: 214 |
Areas of expertise
The political economy and history of the music industries; live music, popular music policy, freedom of expression, popular music.
The political economy and history of the music industries; live music, popular music policy, freedom of expression, popular music.
Biography
Professor Martin Cloonan is Director of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS).
Before joining TIAS Martin was Professor of Popular Music Politics at the University of Glasgow.
Martin also chaired the anti-censorship NGO, Freemuse (www.freemuse,org) and managed the Glasgow-based band Zoey Van Goey (www.zoeyvangoey.com).
For a list of publications and see https://www.utu.fi/sites/default/files/public://media/file/Publications July 19.pdf
Research
My research concerns the political economy of the music industries.
Publications 
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- The Music City: popular music’s “policy moment” (2025)
- International Journal of Cultural Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Book review: Andrew Hunt: Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below. 2023. ISBN 978-1-350-29156-0 (2024)
- Popular Music and Society
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - An Interview with Alasdair Roberts on Being a Scottish Songwriter (2023) Made in Scotland : Studies in Popular Music Cloonan Martin
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Book Review: Pop Music Education in the UK. By Norton York, 2021. 415pp. RSL. ISBN 978-1-78936-346-3 (2023)
- Popular Music
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Book Review: Steve Waksman: Live Music in America: A history from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé. 2022. ISBN: 978-0-19-757053-1 (2023)
- Popular Music
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Interview with Jill Rodger, Director, Glasgow Jazz Festival (2023) Made in Scotland : Studies in Popular Music Cloonan Martin
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Introduction
(in book: Made in Scotland) (2023) Made in Scotland : Studies in Popular Music Frith Simon, Cloonan Martin, Williamson John
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Jock Rock? : Putting Scotland into Scottish Popular Music (2023) Made in Scotland : Studies in Popular Music Cloonan Martin
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music (2023) Frith Simon, Cloonan Martin, Williamson John
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Musicians as Workers and the Gig Economy (2023)
- Popular Music and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Nordic Institutes for Advanced Studies: A Policy Brief (2023) Cloonan Martin
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Politics and policies (2023) Made in Scotland : Studies in Popular Music Cloonan Martin
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Stop making census! Some experiential reflections on conducting a live music census (2023) Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries Behr, Adam; Brennan, Matt; Cloonan, Martin; Webster, Emma
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - The King as Proletarian : Thinking about Elvis Presley as a Worker (2023)
- Rock Music Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Thinking about Music Cities: Tales from England, Finland and Scotland (2023)
- Etnomusikologian vuosikirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Afterword (2022) Mixing Pop and Politics: Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st Century Cloonan Martin
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Music, Digitalization, and Democracy (2022)
- Popular Music and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Musicians of the World Unite!: The Initial Years of the International Federation of Musicians (2022) Music as Labour: Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present Cloonan Martin
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Cruisicology: The Music Culture of Cruise Ships (Book Review) (2021)
- Popular Music
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Songs for ‘Great Leaders’: Ideology and creativity in North Korean music and dance. By Keith Howard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 349 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-007751-8 (2021)
- Popular Music
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
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