Philip Tagg - An expanded Musicology: from musematics to edutainment.
Philip Tagg (1944 – 2024) began his musical career in the early 1960s. A Professor since the 1970s, he is the author of an extensive intellectual output of books, texts, and videos. He was largely responsible for the establishment and development of an expanded Musicology, having taken the studies of and about popular music to Academia. As one of the founders of IASPM – International Association for the Study of Popular Music, in the early 1980s, he encouraged the assembly, exchange of knowledge and debate among researchers, initially from Europe and North America and, gradually, from various regions of the planet. Throughout his work, understanding of music - as language and practice – appears as the result of the interface of various sound and musical elements mediated, whether in audiovisual products or in phonograms, contributing decisively to the formation of meaning by the listener/receiver.
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