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Barry Shank

Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1991
Music History and CultureMusicology and Musical AnalysisLatin American and Latino StudiesDiverse Musicological StudiesDiverse Music Education Insights

Publications

42

Citations

750

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

34

Publishing since 1991

Research summary
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Barry Shank studies popular music from a humanities perspective, examining how music relates to politics, emotion, and cultural identity. His work includes book chapters and essays on topics like musical beauty, political melancholy, and cross-cultural reception of music, as well as reviews of scholarly books in popular music studies. This work sits within American studies and musicology, focusing on how listening and musical meaning connect to broader social and political life.

Popular music and politicsMusic and emotion/affectAmerican studies approaches to musicCross-cultural music receptionMusic criticism and book reviews

Publication output has been uneven over the last decade, with a cluster of book chapters in 2020 and otherwise sparse, occasional output in other years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.4/year recently
2017: 1 publication1718192020: 6 publications620212022: 1 publication22232024: 1 publication242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Popular Music Studies×4
  • Amsterdam University Press eBooks×2
  • American studies×1
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks×1
  • Unipub UB Graz (Universität Graz)×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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