David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media, Music and Culture in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Cultural Industries (4th edition, 2019, previous editions 2002, 2007 and 2013); Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (Palgrave, 2015, co-written with Kate Oakley, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett); Why Music Matters (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013); and Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (Routledge, 2011, co-written with Sarah Baker). He is also editor or co-editor of seven other books on media, music and culture, including Media and Society (with James Curran, 6th edition, Bloomsbury, 2019) The Media and Social Theory (Routledge, with Jason Toynbee, 2008) and Western Music and its Others (University of California Press, with Georgina Born, 2000).
