Background and experience
Keith Negus is internationally recognised for research on the music industries, creativity, and cultural production, and for contributing to the study and teaching of popular music. Before joining the University of Agder, he taught at The Centre for Mass Communication Research at Leicester University, the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Producing Pop (1992), Popular Music in Theory (1996), Music Genres and Corporate Cultures (1999), Bob Dylan (2008), co-author of Creativity, Communication and Cultural Value (2004), and Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman (1997, 2013), and co-editor of Popular Music Studies (2002). He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Popular Music and was coordinating editor 2000-2012, and a member of the international advisory board of several journals. He regularly presents his research internationally, recently speaking at various universities in China, Japan, and South Korea, as well as in Europe, and the United States.