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Journal of Popular Music Studies Template

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About the Journal of Popular Music Studies format

Journal of Popular Music Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Music History and Culture, Diverse Musicological Studies, Musicology and Musical Analysis.

PublisherWiley
Reference styleAuthor–year (Chicago)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of Popular Music Studies 12 (3): 45–58.

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Publishes research inMusic History and Culture Diverse Musicological Studies Musicology and Musical Analysis Theater, Performance, and Music History Asian Culture and Media Studies
ISSN1524-2226
Citation impact (2-yr)0.22
h-index32
i10-index134
Total citations4,825
Top institutions publishing hereNew York University
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Papers published in Journal of Popular Music Studies per year

56
2014
52
2015
46
2016
64
2017
48
2018
71
2019
78
2020
98
2021
49
2022
55
2023
58
2024
45
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Popular Music Studies by publication year

159
2014
179
2015
214
2016
133
2017
171
2018
227
2019
73
2020
180
2021
44
2022
30
2023
22
2024
5
2025

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Most-cited papers in Journal of Popular Music Studies

Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica

Norman C. Stolzoff · 1 Sep 2002

Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1. Dancehall Culture in Jamaica: An Introduction 2. From Way Back When: The Dancehall from Slavery to World War II 3. Talking Blues: The Rise of the Sound System 4. Get Up, Stand Up: The Dancehall in Post Independence Jamaica 5. The Dub Market: The Recording Studio and the…

Blacker than Death: Recollecting the “Black Turn” in Metal Aesthetics

Ian Reyes · 1 Jun 2013

This essay illuminates the construction of a newer, blacker, and heavier recollection of metal’s aesthetic potential. By analyzing recordings and popular press articles, and reading these through the historical and theoretical observations of academic metal studies, I argue that the precondition of 1990s black metal was the exhaustion of death metal aesthetics coinciding with the…

Journal of Popular Music Studies template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Journal of Popular Music Studies use?
Journal of Popular Music Studies uses Author–year (Chicago) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of Popular Music Studies 12 (3): 45–58.
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