Abstract
In 1996 Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Waters published The Death of Class, a pronouncement upon the demise of class as a useful method of social and cultural analysis. In the face of globalization and the collapse of any viable alternative to free market capitalism, they claimed that class had ceased to be a relevant social concept. Social inequalities had become centred around consumption rather than production. Whether this is so or not is largely irrelevant to this work; popular music has and continues to engage with the idea of class and it is the purpose of this research to understand why class has consistently maintained a presence in the worlds of pop and rock music. Equally, despite Pakulski and Waters’ reservations, class has continued to play an important role within the disciplines of sociology and cultural studies, even if it is a rapidly evolving role.
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