Reading Pop

This text collects together essays on the interpretation of pop songs previously published in the journal "Popular Music". Influential approaches are represented in 16 varied studies and an introduction puts them into context and outlines the main debates.

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Reading Pop collects together key essays on the interpretation of pop songs previously published in the journal Popular Music. In sixteen varied studies by many of the best-known scholars, all the most influential approaches are represented. A newly written introduction by leading pop academic Richard Middleton puts them into context and outlines the main debates. A select bibliography of other writings on pop music analysis adds to the usefulness of the book, which will become a central text in popular music studies.