“And I shall never not return” Philip Tagg, Liverpool, and the Paris Connection
Keywords:
Philip Tagg, popular music studies, musiques populaires, FrançaAbstract
“The IASPM Executive is saddened to hear of the passing of IASPM founding member and popular music studies pioneer, Philip Tagg.” Since the news broke out on May 9, 2024, many of us insisted on Philip’s championing the study of popular music in academia, his laying the groundwork for this meta-discipline as we know it today, and his contributing to bringing musicology to the fore of the latter. In this short article, I pay tribute to him by sharing personal memories, and recalling his role in establishing popular music studies in France at the turn of the 2000s.
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