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This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies; audience research; and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on fandom in popular music studies and begin a dialogue with the wider field of media fan research; raising questions about how popular music fandom can be understood as a cultural phenomenon and how much it has changed in light of recent developments. Exploring the topic in this way broaches questions on how to define; theorize; and empirically research popular music fan culture; and how music fandom relates to other roles; practices; and forms of social identity. Fandom itself has been brought center stage by the rise of the internet and an industrial structure aiming to incorporate; systematize; and legitimate dimensions of it as an emotionally-engaged form of consumerism. Once perceived as the pariah practice of an overly attached audience; media fandom has become a standardized industrial subject-position called upon to sell box sets; concert tickets; new television series; and special editions. Meanwhile; recent scholarship has escaped the legacy of interpretations that framed fans as passive; pathological; or defiantly empowered; taking its object seriously as a complex formation of identities; roles; and practices. While popular music studies has examined some forms of identity and audience practice; such as the way that people use music in daily life and listener participation in subcultures; scenes and; tribes; this volume is the first to examine music fans as a specific object of study.