Popular Music Studies

A discipline that grew out of cultural and ethnic studies, mass communications, musicology, and ethnomusicology, popular music studies strives to understand our perception of what makes music popular and unpopular. Originally a forum for studying the neglected practices of rock 'n' roll and pop, it grew to include substantial research on heavy metal, hip hop, urban dance music, and popular music in diverse locations such as Bollywood, the Caribbean, and Thailand.

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Everyday I Write the Book: A-C - Ever-expanding bibliography of (mostly) academic works on rock and pop music.
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IASPM: Bibliographies for Popular Music Studies - Connects to a number of online bibliographies of interest to scholars of Popular Music Studies.
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Philip Tagg - Includes many online texts by this semiotician and seminal figure in popular music studies, specifically semiotic analysis linking musical structure with other aspects of culture and society. Also includes articles on teaching and research methodologies.
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