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

=About= David 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, 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. 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. His books include The Cultural Industries, first published in 2002, and Why Music Matters.

=Publications=

Books

 * The Cultural Industries, 4th edition (London and Los Angeles: Sage, 2019). ISBN 978-1-5264-24105
 * Media and Society, 6th edition (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019). Eds. J. Curran and D. Hesmondhalgh. ISBN 978-1-501-34073-4
 * 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
 * Why Music Matters (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). ISBN 978-1-4051-9241-5
 * 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
 * The Media and Social Theory (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008). Eds. D Hesmondhalgh, J. Toynbee. ISBN 978-0-415-44800-0
 * Media Production (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006), ISBN 0-335-21884-9.
 * Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity (Maidenhead Open University Press, 2005). Eds. J. Evans and D. Hesmondhalgh. ISBN 0-335-21880-6
 * Popular Music Studies (London: Arnold, 2002). Eds. D. Hesmondhalgh and K. Negus
 * Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) ISBN 0-520-22084-6

Selected Articles
Hesmondhalgh, D. and Lobato, R. (2019) ‘Television device ecologies, datafication and prominence: the neglected importance of the set-top box’, Media, Culture and Society, vol. 41, no. 7, 958-974.

Hesmondhalgh, D. and Meier, L. (2018) ‘What the digitalisation of music tells us about capitalism, culture and the power of the information technology sector’, Information, Communication and Society, vol. 21, no. 11, 1555-1570.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (2017) ‘Capitalism and the media: moral economy, well-being and capabilities ‘, Media, Culture and Society, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 202-218

Hesmondhalgh, D. and Baker, S. (2015) ‘Sex, gender, and work segregation in the cultural industries’, Sociological Review vol. 63, no. S1, pp. 23-36.

Hesmondhalgh, D., Nisbett, M., Oakley, K. and Lee, D. (2015) ‘Were New Labour’s cultural policies neo-liberal?’ International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol. 21, no. 1: 97-114.

Percival, N. and Hesmondhalgh, D. (2014) ‘Unpaid work in the UK television and film industries: resistance and changing attitudes’, European Journal of Communication, vol. 29, no. 2: 188-203.

Hesmondhalgh, D., and Saha, A. (2013) ‘Race, ethnicity and cultural production’, Popular Communication, vol. 11, no. 3: 179-95.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (2010) ‘User-generated content, free labour and the cultural industries’, Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, vol. 10, no. 3-4: 267-84.

Hesmondhalgh, D. and S. Baker (2010) ‘’A very complicated version of freedom’: conditions and experiences of creative labour in three cultural industries’, Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, vol. 38, no. 1: 4-20.

Banks, M. and D. Hesmondhalgh (2009) ‘Looking for work in creative industries policy’, International Journal of Cultural Policy vol. 15, no. 4: 1-16.

Hesmondhalgh, D. and S. Baker (2008) ‘Creative work and emotional labour in the television industry’, Theory, Culture and Society vol. 25, no.s 7-8: 97-118.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (2008) ‘Towards a critical understanding of music, emotion and self-identity’, Consumption, Markets and Culture vol. 11, no. 4: 329-343.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) ‘Audiences and everyday aesthetics: talking about good and bad music’, European Journal of Cultural Studies vol. 10, no. 4: 507-27.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (2006) ‘Bourdieu, the media and cultural production’, Media, Culture and Society vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 211-32.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (2005) ‘Subcultures, scenes or tribes? None of the above’, Journal of Youth Studies vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-40.

Hesmondhalgh, D (1999) ‘Indie: The aesthetics and institutional politics of a popular music genre’, Cultural Studies 13,1: 34-61.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (1998) ‘The British dance music industry: a case study in independent cultural production’, The British Journal of Sociology 49,2: 234-51.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (1997) ‘Post-punk's attempt to democratise the music industry: the success and failure of Rough Trade’, Popular Music 16,3: 255-74.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (1996) ‘Post-Fordism, flexibility and the music industries’, Media, Culture and Society 18,3: 468-488.

Other publications
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2019) ‘The British General Election: the nightmare before Christmas’, Social Text Online, 13 December.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (2017) ‘British election nights, despair and hope: a personal history’, Social Text Online, 20 June.

Hesmondhalgh, D. (2017) ‘Why it matters when big tech firms extend their power into media content’, The Conversation, 15 November.

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. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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.

=External links=

Video

 * Lecture at Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California 2009

Audio

 * Hesmondhalgh discussing Why Music Matters on BBC radio, 2014
 * On Brexit
 * Submission to Puttnam Enquiry into the Future of Public Service Media