Afterword: The Expense of Exclusion – US Musicology and Popular Music – ERRATUM

Musicology and the semiotics of popular music

This text was originally published as an article in Semiotica 66-1/3 (1987), pp. 279-298. Copyright P Tagg (author, Liverpool) and Mouton de Gruyter (publishers, Amsterdam). This text is basically the same as that sent unedited to Mouton de Gruyter in 1986, except that bibliographical references have been corrected. Footnote numbers are not the same as in the Semiotica version. Starts of pages ...

Alcohol brand appearances in US popular music.

AIMS The average US adolescent is exposed to 34 references to alcohol in popular music daily. Although brand recognition is an independent, potent risk factor for alcohol outcomes among adolescents, alcohol brand appearances in popular music have not been assessed systematically. We aimed to determine the prevalence of and contextual elements associated with alcohol brand appearances in US popu...

Comparing music, comparing musicology

My aim in this chapter is to offer some observations on the past, present and future of comparison in musicology. These comments concern the necessity of comparison, but also the profound difficulties it presents: understanding both the importance and problems of comparison is an important part of any cultural study of music. In order to introduce and to illustrate these observations, I will ma...

Associations between Musicology and Music Information Retrieval

A higher level of interdisciplinary collaboration between music information retrieval (MIR) and musicology has been proposed both in terms of MIR tools for musicology, and musicological motivation and interpretation of MIR research. Applying association mining and content citation analysis methods to musicology references in ISMIR papers, this paper explores which musicological subject areas ar...

Music Information Retrieval , Musicology , and Musical Genre