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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- 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) - Adult Responses to Popular Music and Intergenerational Relations in Britain, c.1955–1975. By Gillian A.M. Mitchell. London: Anthem Press. 223pp. ISBN: 9781783089000. (2020)
- Popular Music
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Book review: The Great Music City. By Andrea Baker. 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-96353-8. (2020)
- Popular Music
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Going spare? Concert tickets, touting and cultural value (2020)
- International Journal of Cultural Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Future of Live Music (Book Review) (2020)
- Popular Music
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Introduction to the Special Issue on Pop Music Festivals and (Cultural) Policies (2019) Pop music festivals and (cultural) policies Beate Flath, Adam Behr, Martin Cloonan
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)
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