Theories about cultural practices like music, whether heard as live-performances or through
recordings, replicate their object's inherent partiality, incompletion, and need for …

The article concerns a specific model for reading a work inspired by musical forms: the
author proposes to include the poetics of experience into musicand-text research and to …

LATELY, ACROSS THE HUMANITIES, HISTORICISM in its many guises has been in retreat—
a retreat that music studies has in some respects hastened. This collection of essays asks …

Research gathered under the explicit rubric of popular music, memory and cultural heritage
is broadening the horizons of popular music studies. The prevailing understanding of …

In thinking about how to locate popular music within music history, I start from two
propositions. Firstly, that attempts to isolate and define musical types, functions and effects …

Taking stock of recent trends and preoccupations in the theory, methodology, and
interpretive practice of musicotextual relations is the express aim of this essay. It identifies …

From the start, popular music studies provided a home for varied theories of music
signification. One reason is the field's engagement with diverse forms of cultural theory, such …

This study posits register theory as a framework for discussing pre-existing music in
multimedia. Even with all of their semiotic underpinnings, the present theories related to the …

If I look back on the work that has been done over the last 15 years or so, what strikes me is
the extent and variety of the developments-theoretical, methodological, or epistemological …

The culturally-oriented musicology of the 1990s set out to examine meanings that had
generally been omitted from most accounts of music. One of its means to that end has been …