David Hesmondhalgh David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media, Music and Culture in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (Palgrave, 2015, co-written with Kat Oakley, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett); Why Music Matters (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013); Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (Routledge, 2011, co-written with Sarah Baker); and The Cultural Industries, now in its third edition (Sage, 2012), with a fourth edition due in 2018. He is also editor or co-editor of six other books on media, music and culture. Read More Read Less