Martin Cloonan
Ph.D, M.A., B.A.
martin.cloonan@utu.fi +358 29 450 3951 +358 50 464 5411 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku : 214 |
The political economy and history of the music industries; live music, popular music policy, freedom of expression, popular music.
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
My research concerns the political economy of the music industries.
- Afterword (2022) Mixing Pop and Politics: Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st Century Cloonan Martin
- Music, Digitalization, and Democracy (2022)
- Popular Music and Society
- 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
- Cruisicology: The Music Culture of Cruise Ships (Book Review) (2021)
- Popular Music
- 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
- 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
- Book review: The Great Music City. By Andrea Baker. 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-96353-8. (2020)
- Popular Music
- Going spare? Concert tickets, touting and cultural value (2020)
- International Journal of Cultural Policy
- The Future of Live Music (Book Review) (2020)
- Popular Music
- 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



