Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide, offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set. Featuring a broad range of subjects, people, cultures, and geographic areas, and spanning musical genres such as traditional, folk, jazz, rock, reggae, samba, rai, punk, hip-hop, and many more, this guide highlights different approaches and discussions within global popular music research. This research guide is comprehensive in scope, providing a vital resource for scholars and students approaching the vast amount of publications on popular music studies and popular music traditions around the world. Thorough cross-referencing and robust indexes of genres, places, names, and subjects make the guide easy to use.

Volume 1, Global Perspectives in Popular Music Studies, situates popular music studies within global perspectives and geo-cultural settings at large. It offers over nine hundred in-depth annotated bibliographic entries.

Volume 2, Transnational Discourses of Global Popular Music Studies, covers the geographical areas of North America: United States and Canada; the Caribbean, Central America, and South America/Latin America; Europe; Africa and Middle East; Asia; and areas of Oceania: Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Pacific Islands. It provides over twenty-four hundred annotated bibliographic entries.

Complete indexes are included in each volume.