The Cultural Industries

About David Hesmondhalgh

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 (SAGE 2019); 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 eight other books or special journal issues on media music and culture including a special issue of Popular Communication (co-edited with Anamik Saha) on Race and Cultural Production; The Media and Social Theory (Routledge co-edited with Jason Toynbee 2008) and Media and Society 6th edition (Bloomsbury co-edited with James Curran 2019). He was born and raised in Accrington Lancashire did his first degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and received his PhD from Goldsmiths University of London in 1996. He lives in Yorkshire with his partner the philosopher Helen Steward and they have two adult children Rosa and Joe.