Campos Valverde, R. orcid.org/0000-0003-3712-6152 and Hesmondhalgh, D. orcid.org/0000-0001-5940-9191 (2026) Listening at Home and Beyond: Music Polymedia and Everyday Life. Popular Music and Society. ISSN: 0300-7766
Abstract
This article applies polymedia theory to music and everyday life, with particular attention to musical engagement within families and the home, and to commuting and workspace environments. We focus on three issues: the role of music polymedia in managing multiscreen, intergenerational households, including their use as remote offices; listening practices while traveling and commuting as extensions of the home, and the influence of work schedules on musical experience; and the adoption of streaming in workspaces and the blurring of boundaries between home and work, and between professional and personal engagements with music.
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | music in everyday life; music consumption; music technologies; music and families; polymedia; music in the home |
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| Institution: | The University of Leeds |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2026 14:19 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2026 14:19 |
| Status: | Published online |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/03007766.2026.2623738 |
| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:237641 |
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