Studying Popular Music

Contents

• Part 1 Charting the popular - towards a historical framework: roll over Beethoven? - sites and soundings on the music
• historical map
• it's all over now
• popular music and mass culture - Adorno's theory
• over the rainbow? - technology, politics and popular music in an era beyond mass culture. Part 2 Taking a part - towards an analytical framework: change gonna come? - popular music and musicology
• I heard it through the grapevine? - popular music in culture
• from me to you
• popular music as message
• lost in music? - pleasure, value and ideology in popular music