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 …

Since their beginnings, popular music studies have conducted an implicit (sometimes
explicit) dialogue with musicology. To be sure, the musicological side of this conversation …

Taken together, the four publications reviewed here pose a question that penetrates to the
heart of this journal, namely: what does it mean to analyse popular music?'The ambiguous …

The decade of the 198os witnessed a dramatic shift in the focus of scholarship in various of
the humanities, hailed in some quarters as" the triumph of theory." At issue were two …

Popular music studies is approached from a number of disciplinary perspectives. Most
recently, musicologists and music theorists have become interested in the analysis of …

I'ma musicologist. Well, I think I am. Actually, I'm not sure what I think I am. I'll say more about
that later. But I can say that just over 20 years ago I applied for graduate school in …

For more than two decades, a trend in popular music scholarship has been the publication
every few years of an edited collection of analytical essays (eg, Covach and Boone 1997; …

For four semesters now, as a beginning teacher at the University of Alabama, I have been
presenting to roughly thirty students at a time an American Pop Music survey course, at the …

Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth
of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music. This annotated …

The area of popular music research has had a particularly difficult time establishing a
theoretical focus. While a considerable amount of work on popular music has been …