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What is Popular Music Studies? Some observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2005

Martin Cloonan
Martin Cloonan
Affiliation:
Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Glasgow, St Andrews Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NE [email protected]
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Abstract

Popular Music Studies (PMS) is now taught in over 20 higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK and numerous others across the world. This article outlines the constituent parts of PMS in the UK and questions its status as a discipline in its own right. It concludes by arguing that, having established itself, PMS will need to deal with two key pressures in modern academic life – those of conducting research and widening participation. In the former instance, PMS might have to be pragmatic, in the latter lies potential for radicalism.

Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Music Education , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 77 - 93
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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