The School of Music at the University of Liverpool, UK, has announced a forthcoming conference on popular music and cultural memory called 'Sites of Popular Music Heritage'. The conference will be held in Liverpool on 8-9 September 2011 and is currently asking for contributions in three thematic areas: popular music heritage in the museum; heritage, place and local identity; digital archives and online practice. Deadline for abstracts is 30 April 2011.
Showing posts with label popular music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popular music. Show all posts
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Thursday, March 11, 2010
What do we mean by 'popular music'?
While at first glance, what we mean by 'popular music' might seem to be quite straightforward and self-explanatory (it's music that's popular, right?), there has been considerable discussion in academic circles about what actually constitutes 'popular music'.
Here are a few different ways that the term might be defined (but not all of them...) and some of the problems with these definitions:
Here are a few different ways that the term might be defined (but not all of them...) and some of the problems with these definitions:
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