• Pop culture is media culture. The history of popular music and the colorful stories around it have been shaped by media technology developments for over a hundred years. The invention and constant further development of studio technology, sound carriers, mass media, computer and internet technologies are of crucial importance for the production, distribution, use and processing of popular music cultures. 
  • Their actors are also essential components of the media society: whether as producers, marketers, journalists, global superstars or local heroes. These figures and connections have to be observed and analyzed professionally in order to learn something about the medialized worlds and their pop music stages.