This book analyses the relationships between music and contemporary media, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. This involves considering music as a means of understanding events, and also establishing, confirming or subverting the ‘meaning’ of events. Examining visual, print, radio and ‘new’ media, this textbook draws together disparate elements of music and media which formerly have not been considered together, and provides a fresh and innovative contribution to the swiftly growing field of popular music studies.