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Looking Towards the Future: Popular Music Studies and Music Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2020

BRIAN F. WRIGHT ,
AMY CODDINGTON  and
ANDREW MALL
BRIAN F. WRIGHT
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AMY CODDINGTON
Affiliation:
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ANDREW MALL
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In the foreword to the first issue of Popular Music and Society, published in 1971, Ray B. Browne wrote that, ‘until very recently … academics, with a few notable exceptions, were by and large indifferent to the role of popular music in their world’; he then recounted a rejection he had received from an academic journal, whose editor had written that, ‘although this might be interesting, we both had to admit that popular songs really had no academic significance’. Today, exactly fifty years later, the position of popular music studies within the academy is far removed from Browne's experience: there are multiple academic journals and scholarly press book series devoted solely to popular music, scholars regularly present papers on popular music topics at academic conferences, and departments across colleges and universities offer an increasingly wide variety of popular music courses. Popular music has even become a viable area of interest within music scholarship.

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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , pp. 3 - 11
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