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Popular music analysis and musicology: bridging the gap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Richard Middleton
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Since their beginnings, popular music studies have conducted an implicit (sometimes explicit) dialogue with musicology. To be sure, the musicological side of this conversation has more often than not been marked by insult, incomprehension or silence; and popular music scholars for their part have tended to concentrate on musicology's deficiencies. But musicology is changing (more about this later); at the same time, recent work on popular music suggests a new confidence, manifesting itself in part in a willingness to engage with and adapt mainstream methods. I believe each needs the other.

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Popular Music , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , May 1993 , pp. 177 - 190
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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