David Hesmondhalgh

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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 the media and cultural industries, critical approaches to media in the digital age, and the sociology of music.

Biography

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,

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.

His books include The Cultural Industries, first published in 2002, described by Herbert et al. in their Media Industry Studies as "a formative text for many who began their research careers at the start of the century" and as "extensively updated to keep pace with the new issues developing in an era of social and internet-distributed media".[2][3] Oakley and O'Connor describe the same book as "the most comprehensive overview of the literature and issues in the field" of cultural and creative industries.[4] He is acknowledged as a key figure in developing the "cultural industries" approach to media, which emphasises the complex and contradictory nature of cultural production under capitalism.[5] He is frequently named as one of the leading analysts of cultural labour, partly based on his book Creative Labour, co-written with Sarah Baker.[6] He is also well-known for his work on the sociology of music, especially his book Why Music Matters (2013), which provides a "nuanced case for music’s value in contributing to intimate and collective 'human flourishing'".[7][8]

Personal life

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.

Books

Selected publications

  • 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.
  • 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. (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. (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. (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. (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. (2017) ‘Why it matters when big tech firms extend their power into media content’, The Conversation, 15 November.
  • Hesmondhalgh, D. (2017) ‘British election nights, despair and hope: a personal history’, Social Text Online, 20 June.
  • Hesmondhalgh, D. (2019) ‘The British General Election: the nightmare before Christmas’, Social Text Online, 13 December.

References

  1. ^ AHC. "Professor David Hesmondhalgh". University of Leeds.
  2. ^ Herbert, Lotz and Punathambekar, Media Industry Studies (Cambridge: Polity, 2020, p. 4).
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  4. ^ Kate Oakley and Justin O'Connor, The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries (London: Routledge, 2015) p. 12.
  5. ^ E.g. Aphra Kerr, Global Games (London: Routledge, 2016) p. 4, Anamik Saha, Race and the Cultural Industries (Cambridge: Polity, 2018), p. 25.
  6. ^ E.g. Mark Banks, Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017, pp. 5, 151)
  7. ^ David Wilkinson, Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), p. 3.
  8. ^ Fox, Aaron A. "Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh, eds. "Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music" (Book Review)". University of California Press.
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  12. ^ Noonan, Caitriona. "Book Review: David Hesmondhalgh (ed.), Media Production. Milton Keynes". Media, Culture & Society.
  13. ^ West, Emily. "David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee (Eds.), The Media and Social Theory". International Journal of Communication.
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  18. ^ "Book Review: Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour by David Hesmondhalgh, Kate Oakley, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett". LSE Review of Books. 29 November 2016.
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