Professor Steve Waksman

Leverhulme International Professor of Popular Music

Email: S.M.Waksman@hud.ac.uk

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Steve Waksman is Leverhulme International Professor of Popular Music at University of Huddersfield, UK. His publications include the books Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (1999), This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (2009), and Live Music in America: A History from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé (2022), which was awarded the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. With Reebee Garofalo, he co-authored the sixth edition of the rock history textbook, Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A. (2014), and with Andy Bennett, he co-edited the SAGE Handbook of Popular Music (2015). Most recently, he completed The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar, co-edited with Jan-Peter Herbst.