Motti Regev

Motti Regev is Professor of Sociology at the Open University of Israel. He is a cultural sociologist. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of World Popular Music, Popular Music, European Journal of Cultural Studies. He was Visiting Scholar at Princeton University (1996), Linköping University, Sweden (2006), the University of Bologna (2011), Griffith University, Queensland (2012), UC Berkeley (2017), University of Trento (2017), Complutense University, Madrid. (2017). Served as General Secretary of IASPM (1997-1999).

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Research Interests
Globalization of pop-rock music, cultural globalization.

Publications
Regev, M. (2017). ‘Pop-Rock as Musical Cosmopolitanism’, Journal of World Popular Music, 4: 2, pp. 290-300.

Regev, M. (2014). ‘World Music and Cultural Globalization: The Case of Pop-Rock and Musical Cosmopolitanism’, in J. Shepherd and K. Devine (eds), The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music. London: Routledge, pp.201-209.

Regev, M. (2014). ‘Notes on Sociological Theory and Popular Music Studies’, in A. Bennett and S. Waksman (eds), The Sage Handbook of Popular Music. London: Sage, pp. 33-47.

Regev, M. (2013). Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity. London: Polity.

Regev, M. (2011). ‘Pop-Rock Music as Expressive Isomorphism: Blurring the National, the Exotic and the Cosmopolitan in Popular Music’, American Behavioral Scientist, 55, pp. 558-573.

Regev, M. (2011). ‘International Festivals in a Small Country: Rites of Recognition and Cosmopolitanism’, in G. Delanty et al. (eds), Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere. London: Routledge, pp. 108-123.

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