John Peel's life, work and role in British life and popular culture have begun to receive the attention of academic researchers - notably in a special edition of the Radio Journal . Of course, the most well-known of these researchers, and one indispensable to fans and other academics alike, is Ken Garner who sets the standard for rigour and accessibility. This page seeks to collect a list of articles from academic journals and of PhD thesis etc that are directly relevant to Peel. In each case, if you look up the reference on a site like Google Scholar you'll find further references to the use of these articles in making a case for the importance of Peel to popular music, radio, British cultural history and so on.
Articles[]
- Chignell, Hugh, and John Devlin. "John Peel's Home Truths." Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 4.1-3 (2007): 69-81.
- Garner, Ken. "Reading peel." Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 4.1-3 (2007): 83-86.
- Garner, Ken. "Ripping the pith from the Peel: Institutional and Internet cultures of archiving pop music radio." Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 10.2 (2012): 89-111.
- Inglis, Ian. "John Peel 1939–2004." Popular Music and Society 28.3 (2005): 407-410.
- Long, Paul. "The primary code: The meanings of John Peel, radio and popular music." Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 4.2-3 (2007): 25-48.
- Long, Paul. ‘I think it’s over now’: The Fall, John Peel, Popular Music and Radio' in Goddard, Michael, and Benjamin Halligan, eds. Mark E. Smith and the Fall: art, music and politics. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., (2010): 157-168.
- Rothenbuhler, Eric W. "John Peel in America." Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 4.1-3 (2007): 7-23.
- Tessler, Holly. "Dialect and dialectic: John Peel's Stylised Scouseness and contested contexts of Englishness in Broadcast Radio." Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 4.2-3 (2007): 49-67.
- Winham, Richard Paul. The Power of Paradoxical Persona: An Analysis of John Peel's Radio Talk and Career at the BBC. Dissertation - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2008).