Download or read book Living Politics, Making Music written by Professor Ian Christie and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Jan Fairley was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and this book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place. The result is a richly informed and entertaining volume that will be of interest to all scholars in the field while also serving as an excellent introduction for students interested in popular music as a global phenomenon. This is inspiring as well as essential reading.