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MUSICAL WORKS

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 last update 2012-12-31

Articles in journals, encyclopaedias and anthologies
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Articles published in journals, encyclopaedias and anthologies

  • (— with Dan Malmström and Lars Silén) Country and Western. Sohlmans musiklexikon, 2. 1975, Stockholm: Sohlmans Förlag: 141-144. ISBN.91.7198.020.2

    Popmusik. Sohlmans musiklexikon, 5. 1979, Stockholm: Sohlmans Förlag: 90-100. ISBN.91.7198.020.2

    De musikaliska kodernas makt. Musikdramatik, 5/6. 1979: 24-25

    ‘“Fernando” - Analyse af affekt i ABBA’s “Fernando”, som er solgt i mere end 10 millioner eksemplarer og er blevet hørt af over 100 millioner mennesker.’ Dansk Musiktidskrift, 1979/3. 1979, København: Dansk Tonekunstnerselskab: 124-156. https://seismograf.org/dmt/54/03/fernando [230401]

    (— written 1979). [1] Kretzschmar and the hermeneutics of music; [2] The semiology of music. Both in Musik og betydningsinhold - kompendium i musikstetik, ed. P Druud-Nielsen. 1987, Århus: Institut for musik og musikterapi, AUC: 63-77

    Musik till bild - ett världsprk av stereotyper. Bild och Musik, ed. B Allander. 1980, Stockholm: Sveriges Radio Personalutbildning: 7-17

    The Analysis of Title Music as a Method of Decoding Implicit ideologies in the Mass Media. Mass Communications & Culture, 5, ed. G Andrén & H Strand. 1981, Stockholm: Akademi Litteratur: 90-105. ISBN.91.7410.201.X

    Analiza muzyki czolłowki filmowej jako metoda dekodawania ukrytego przekazu ideologicznego. Przekazy i opninie, 3(25). 1981, Warszawa: OBOPSP (Polish Radio & TV): 66-79

    Music Teacher Training Problems and Popular Music Research. Popular Music Perspectives, ed D Horn & P Tagg. 1982, Göteborg and Exeter: IASPM: 232-242. ISBN.91.7260.610.X

    Natur i massmediemusik. Naturen som symbol, ed. J Allwood, T Frängsmyr, U Svedin. 1982, Stockhom: Liber: 161-199. ISBN.93.98.90239.7

    Populaarimusiikin affektianalyysi - rapporti musiikin sisltanlyysin uusista menetelmistä. Musiikin Soivat Muodot. Tarasti, Eero (ed). 1982, Jyväskylä: Yliopiston musiikitieteen laitoksen, A/2: 147-180. ISBN.951.678 .830.0

    Analysing Popular Music Music - Theory, Method and Practice. Popular Music, 2. 1982, Cambridge University Press: 37-69

    ‘Priroda’ jako kategorie hudebni nalady. Opus musicum, 1983/10. 1983, Brno: Vydavi Statni filharmonie, Cesky hudebni fond...: 295-304

    Musica popolare, innovazione, tecnologia. Musica/Realtà, 13. 1984: 89-98

    Understanding ‘Time Sense’: Concepts, Sketches, Consequences. Tvärspel - 31 artiklar om musik. Festskrift till Jan Ling. 1984, Göteborg: Skrifter från Musikvetenskapliga institutionen, 9: 21-43. ISBN.91.85974.02.1

    Musiken - språket som alla förstår? Fallet med ‘dödsmusiken’. Tvrkulturell kommunikation, ed. J Allwood. 1985, Göteborg: Lingvistiska institutionen, PAL 12: 220-248. ISBN.91.970558.1.6

    La musicologie et la sémantique de la musique populaire. Analytica. Studies in the Description and Analysis of Music (Festskrift till Ingmar Bengtsson). 1985, Stockholm: Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien: 77-96. ISBN.91.85428.40.X

    Il ‘senso del tempo’ nella musica. Definizioni, esempi, proposte. Musica e sistema dell’informazione in Europa. Rampi, Francesco (ed). 1985, Milano: Unicopli: 103-129. ISBN.88.7061.885.4

    Why IASPM? Which Tasks? Popular Music Perspectives, 2, ed. D Horn. 1985, Göteborg, Exeter: IASPM: 501-507. ISBN.91.87030.00.4

    Perch la IASPM? Quali compiti? What is Popular Music? Quaderni di Musica/Realtà, 8. 1985, Milano: Unicopli: 539-546. ISBN.88.7061.894.3

    Zur Analyse von populrer Musik. Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 1985/3-4. 1985, Berlin: Verlag Neue Musik: 241-264. ISSN.0005.8106

    Musik som kommunikation. Mänsklig kommunikation, ed. J Allwood. 1986, Göteborg: Skriftserien GULING Nr 14: 116-131. ISBN.91.970558.3.2

    Musicologia, semiotica, ‘popular music’. Il senso in musica, ed. L Marconi & G Stefani. 1987, Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna: 139-150

    Le città sono come impianti stereo a bassa fedeltà. Essere, 16. 1987, Torino: Essere: 60-69

    Diacritics and dBASE II on a Home Computer. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 1987, London: Oxford University Press: 55-56. ISSN.0268.1145

    Musicology and the Semiotics of Popular Music. Semiotica, 66-1/3. 1987, Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter: 279-298. ISSN.0037.1998

    Musiken som kommunikationsform. Kulturmöten, kommunikation, skola, ed. S & G Strömqvist. 1988, Stockholm: Nordstedts: 133-153. ISBN.91.1.873572.X

    Leggere i suoni. Saggio sul paesaggio sonore e la musica, la conoscenza, la società. Musica/Realtà, 25. 1988, Milano, Unicopli: 145-160. ISBN.88.7061.917.6

    Lettera aperta sulla ‘musica nera’, ‘afro-americana’ ed ‘europea’. Musica/Realtà, 29. 1989, Milano, Unicopli: 53-80. ISBN.88.400.0184.0

    Bibliographical coverage of popular music in periodicals. A general sketch of resources and ideas for co-ordination. Riviste musicali in Europa, 1/1. 1989, Roma, Milano: Cidim, Musica/Realtà: 205-209. ISBN.88.400.0186.7

    Musica popolare, innovazione, tecnologia. Quaderni di Musica/Realtà, 23. 1989, Milano, Unicopli: 34-43. ISBN.88.7061.927.3

    Leggere i suoni. Saggio sul paesaggio sonoro e la musica, la conoscenza, la società. Quaderni di Musica/Realtà, 23. 1989, Milano, Unicopli: 168-183. ISBN.88.7061.927.3

    Open letter: Black music, Afro-American and European music. Popular Music, 8/3. 1989, Cambridge University Press: 285-298. ISBN.0.521.38919.4

    ‘Universal’ music and the case of death. La musica come linguaggio universale (ed. R Pozzi). 1990, Firenze: Leo S. Olschki: 227-266. ISBN.88.222.3748.X

    Music in Mass Media Studies. Reading Sounds for Example. Popular Music Research, ed. K Roe & U Karlsson. 1990, Göteborg: NORDICOM-Sweden. ISSN.0349.1242

    Reading Sounds (Music, Knowledge, Rock and Society) Ré Records Quarterly, 3/2. 1990, London: November Books / RR Megacorp: 4-11. ISSN.0954.8807

    An Anthropology of Television Music? Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, 1989 (1990): 19-42

    Un approccio antropologico per gli stereotipi presenti nella musica della TV. Musica/Realtà, 33. 1990, Milano, Unicopli: 85-116. ISBN.88.400.0226.X

    Muzak, sigle televisive, temi conduttori e musiche da film. Cinema & cinema, 18/60 (Audiofane - Voci, rumori e musica del cinema). 1991, Bologna, CLUEB: 77-86

    Musiikki joukkoviestinnn tutkimuksessa. Toosa Soi. Musiiki radion kilpailuvlineen, ed. K Salminen, A Alm, Ari. 1992, Helsinki: YLE Tutkimus ja kehitysosasto: 329-343. ISBN.951.43.0557.4

    Towards a sign typology of music. Secondo convegno europeo di analisi musicale, ed. R Dalmonte, M Baroni, Mario. 1992, Trento: Universit degli studi di Trento: 369-378. ISBN.88.86135.09.2

    ‘Universal’ music and the case of death. Critical Quarterly, 35/2, ed S Frith. 1993, Oxford: Blackwell: 54-85. ISSN.0011.1562

    Tramonta la figura, emerge lo sfondo. La musica del rave. Progetto Uomo - Musica, 5 (Identità musicali), ed. G Stefani. 1994, Assisi: Edizioni Musicali Pro Civitate Christiana: 95-99

    From refrain to rave: The decline of figure and the rise of ground. Popular Music, 13/2. 1994, Cambridge University Press: 209-222. ISSN.0261.1430

    Subjectivity and soundscape, motorbikes and music. Soundscapes. Essays on Vroom and Moo. 1994, Tampere: Department of Folk Tradition: 48-66. ISBN.951.44.3541.9

    Vers une musicologie de la télévision. Frank Martin, musique et esthétique musicale. Actes du colloque de La Chaux-de-Fonds 1990, ed. Émery. 1995, Neuchâtel: Revue Musicale de Suisse romande: 33-60

    Dal ritornello al ‘rave’: tramonta la figura, emerge lo sfondo. Annali del Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna, 2/1994, ed. E Collini & S Granelli. 1995, Bologna: Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna: 158-175.

    Beitrag zu einer Typologie des musikalischen Zeichens. Forum Musik Wissenschaft, 1 (Popmusik Yesterday Today Tomorrow, ed. Markus Heuger, Matthias Prell. 1995, Regensburg: ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft: 35-46.

    La musica nel 2017. Un’utopia britannica rovesciata. Musica/Realtà, 50. 1996, Lucca: Libreria musicale italiana: 13-19 [Italian version of unpublished original Music 2017 -- A British Dystopia].

    Analysing music in the media. An epistemological mess. Music on Show: Issues of Performance (ed. T. Hautamki, H. Jrviluoma). 1998, Tampere: Department of Folk Tradition: 319-329.

    The Göteborg connection: lessons in the history and politics of popular music education and research. Popular Music, 17/2. 1998, Cambridge University Press: 219-242.

    Tritonal crime and ‘music as music’, with contributions from Bob Clarida. Norme con ironie. Scritti per i settant’ anni di Ennio Morricone (ed. S. Miceli, L. Gallenga, L. Kokkaliari). 1998, Milano: Suvini Zerboni: 273-312.

    ‘Entrevista com Philip Tagg’ (tr./ed. Martha Tupinamb de Ulha). Debates, 3 (Maro de 1999): 81-96. 1999, Rio de Janeiro: Centro de Letras e Artes, Uni-Rio. ISBN 1414 7939.

    ‘Od refrenu do rave’u: pomniesjazanie figury i uwydatnianie..., tr. Ireneusz Socha. Studium, 15-16. 1999, Krakow: Ml/oda Literatura czeska i sl/owacka: 208-236.

    ‘Analysing Popular Music: Theory, Method, Practice’. Reading Pop. Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music, ed. R. Middleton. 2000, Oxford University Press: 71-103. ISBN 0 85323 835 9.

    ‘The Work: An Evaluative Charge’. The Musical Work. Reality or Invention, ed. M. Talbot. 2000, Liverpool University Press: 153-167. ISBN 0 85323 835 9.

    ‘Popular Music Studies — bridge or barrier?’ Musica come ponte tra i popoli / Die Musik als Brucke zwischen den Volkern, ed. G Tonini: 128-142. 2001, Bolzano: Libreria Musicale Italiana: 128-142. ISBN 88-7096-224-5.

    (with Karen E Collins) ‘The sonic aesthetics of the industrial: reconstructing yesterday’s soundscape for today’s alienation and tomorrow’s dystopia’. Sound Practice, ed. J L Drever: 101-108. 2001, Dartington: UK and Ireland Soundscape Community.

    ‘High and Low, Cool and Uncool: aesthetic and historical falsifications about music in Europe.’ Bulgarian Musicology, 2/2001: 9-18. ISSN 0204-823X.

    ‘Frammenti di musicologia della popular music’. L’esperienza musicale. Per una fenomenologia dei suoni, ed. L Nostro: 13-26. 2002, Roma: Montag/Manifestolibri. ISBN 88-7285-304-4.

    (with Karen E Collins): ‘Industrialna estetyka dzwiekowa (rekonstrukcja dzwiekowych przeszlosci z perspektywy wsplczesnej alienacji przyszlej dystopii)’ Gošiniec Sztuki, 1/8 Rok VII Plock. 2003, Plock: Plocki Ošrodek Kultury i Sztuki: 34-47. ISBN15055299 (Magazyn Artystyczno-Literacki). Polish version of "The Sonic Aesthetics of the Industrial: Reconstructing Yesterday's Soundscape for Today's Alienation and Tomorrow's Dystopia" (2001, #58).

    ‘Analisando a música popular: teoria, método e prática’. Em Pauta, 14. 2003, Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul: 5-42. ISSN01037420 (Revista do Programa de Ps-Graduao em Msica).

    ‘Interconversione gestuale e precisione connotativa’. Musica/Realtà, 76. 2005, Lucca: LIM: 89-120. ISBN8870964191 (Marzo 2005; Italian version of #64).

    ‘Gestural interconversion and connotative precision’. Film Music International, 13 (2005:1)

    ‘Para qué sirve un musema? Antidepresivos y la gestión musical de la angustia’. Musica popular na Amrica Latina - Pontos de escuta, ed. Martha Ulha & Ana Maria Ochoa. 2005, Porto Alegre: Editora da Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul: 22-51.

    Caught on the Back Foot: epistemic inertia and visible music (keynote presentation, IASPM 16th Biennial Conference, Grahamstown, 2011-06-27). [HTML dummy]

    Troubles with Tonal Terminology. Festschrift for Coriún Aharonián and Graciela Paraskevaídis, ed. Hanns-Werner Heister, 2012 (17 pp.).

     

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    Books [get them online!]

  • Kojak: 50 Seconds of Television Music. Towards the Analysis of Affect in Popular Music. 1979, Göteborg: Musikvetenskapliga institutionen vid Göteborgs universitet (301 pp / ISBN.91.7222.235.2). [This first edition is out of print. See 2nd edition]

  • Fernando the Flute. 1991, Liverpool: Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool (vii + 172 pp). [This first edition is out of print. See 2nd edition]

  • Popular music. Da Kojak al Rave (trans. & ed. R Agostini & L Marconi). 1994, Bologna: CLUEB (424 pp. -ISBN.88.8091.044.2).

  • Kojak: 50 Seconds of Television Music. Towards the Analysis of Affect in Popular Music (2nd edition). 2000, New York: Mass Media Music Scholars’ Press (424 pp. ISBN 0-9701684-0-3) [details of 1st edition] .

  • Fernando the Flute (2nd edition). 2000, New York: Mass Media Music Scholars’ Press. (150 pp. ISBN 0 9701684 1 1 [details of 1st edition]

  • (with Bob Clarida) Ten Little Title Tunes (Towards a musicology of the mass media). 2003: New York & Montréal: Mass Media Music Scholars’ Press (ISBN 0-9701684-2-X
    xvi + 898 pages; 501 music examples).

  • Everyday Tonality. 2009.  New York & Montréal: Mass Media Music Scholars' Press. ISBN 978-0-9701684-4-3

    Music’s Meanings. A modern musicology for non-musos. 2012, New York & Huddersfield: Mass Media Music Scholars’ Press. ISBN 978-0-9701684-5-0

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    P Tagg: Booklets, stand-alone articles, working papers, etc.

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    1. Populärmusik och medierna. 1977, Stockholm: Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund (15 pp)

    2. Musikens makt. 1979, Luleå: Rikskonserter - Övre Norrland (8 pp)

    3. On the Specificity of Musical Communication. Guidelines for Non-Musicologists. 1981, Göteborg: Stencilled Papers from the Musicology Department, 8115 (23 pp). ISSN.0349.3407

    4. Muzikale wasverzachters - Bëinvloeding door populaire muziek. 1981, Amersfoort: NSKV (15 pp)

    5. Nature as a Musical Mood Category (revised). First published 1982, Göteborg: IASPM Internal Publications 8206 (35 pp)

    6. Musikvetenskap och populärmusikens semiotik. 1986, Göteborg: Stencilled Papers from the Musicology Department, 8601 (38 pp). ISSN.0349.3407

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    P Tagg: editions and translations

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    1. (ed). Film Music, Mood Music and Popular Music Research. Interviews, Converations, entretiens. 1980, Göteborg: Stencilled Papers from the Musicology Department, 8002 (90 pp). ISSN.0349.3407

    2. (ed. & trans.). Från motkultur till företagsamhet (on ‘Rock and Roll is Here to Pay’ by Chapple and Garofalo, 1977). 1980, Göteborg: Stencilled Papers from the Musicology Department (33 pp)

    3. (ed. with D Horn). Popular Music Perspectives: Papers From the First International Conference on Popular Music Research, Amsterdam, June 1981. 1982, Göteborg & Exeter: IASPM (250 pp)

    4. (ed). DOPMUS. Documentation of Popular Music Studies. 1989, Göteborg: IASPM (Norden) (xx + 280 pp). ISBN.91.87030.01.2

    5. John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Paul Oliver, Philip Tagg, Peter Wicke and Jennifer Wilson (eds.). Popular Music Studies — a select international bibliography. 1997. London and Washington: Mansell (xxviii + 450 pp). ISBN 0.7201.2344.5

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    P Tagg: full-length reviews

    1. Review of Tobler and Grundy’s ‘The Record Producers’ (1982: London, BBC). Popular Music, 3. 1983, Cambridge University Press.

    2. Review of Gillian Anderson’s ‘Music for Silent Films 1894- 1924: A Guide’. Popular Music, 9/1. 1990, Cambridge University Press: 148-149. ISBN.0.521.39944.0

    3. Essay Review of P van der Merwe’s ‘Origins of the Popular Style: the Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music’ (OUP, 1989). Popular Music, 9/3 (1990): 375-380. ISBN.0.521.39943.2

    4. Review of David Brackett’sInterpreting Popular Music (Cambridge, 1995) [HTML 14k].

    5. Essay review of Music and Cultural Theory by John Shepherd and Peter Wicke (Cambridge, 1997). In Popular Music, 17/3 (1998) [HTML 107k].

    6. Review of Jean-Jacques Nattiez’ Musiques. Une encyclopédie pour le XXIe sicle. Volume 1: Circuits, Volume 16 Numro 1 (2006). Original version.

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    P Tagg: forthcoming publications

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    ‘Reading Sounds’ in The Popular Music Reader (ed. Barry Shank). Routledge, 2005.

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