Background
I am Professor of Media, Music and Culture at the University of Leeds. I am the author of The Cultural Industries (4th edition, 2019), Why Music Matters (2013); and co-author of Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (2010) and Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (2015). In 2019, I was Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Research interests
- Media industries, contemporary and historical
- Music, society and culture
- Equality and social justice in relation to digital and cultural work
Recent publications
Journal articles
Black, Brown and Asian cultural workers, creativity and activism: The ambivalence of digital self-branding practices
Francesca Sobande, David Hesmondhalgh and Anamik Saha (2023), The Sociological Review
The changing shape of the Indian recorded music industry in the age of platformisation
Aditya Lal, David Hesmondhalgh and Charles Umney (2023), Contemporary South Asia
Making sense of metrics in the music industries
Baym, N., Bergmann, R., Bhargava, R., Diaz, F., Gillespie, T., Hesmondhalgh, D., Maris, E. and Persaud, C.J. (2021) International Journal of Communication
Streaming’s Effects on Music Culture: Old Anxieties and New Simplifications
Hesmondalgh, D. (2021) Cultural Sociology
Other publications
Research articles
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. Published online July 2017 [doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1340498]
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2017) “Capitalism and the media: moral economy, well-being and capabilities ”, Media, Culture and Society, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 202-218 [doi: 10.1177/01634437.16643153]
Books
Hesmondhalgh, D. (2019) The Cultural Industries, 4th edition, London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi: SAGE, 568pp
Planned Research working papers and delivery date
Video Screen Interfaces as New Sites of Circulation Power (January 2020)