TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cloonan,Martin
TI  - What is popular music studies?: some observations
SN  - 02650517
AV  - ML5 BRI 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Music education
KW  - Educational research
N2  - Popular Music Studies (PMS) is now taught in over 20 higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK and numerous others across the world. This article outlines the constituent parts of PMS in the UK and questions its status as a discipline in its own right. It concludes by arguing that, having established itself, PMS will need to deal with two key pressures in modern academic life – those of conducting research and widening participation. In the former instance, PMS might have to be pragmatic, in the latter lies potential for radicalism
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S026505170400600X
ER  -