Philip Tagg — Publications

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 last update 2003-11-28

Articles in journals, encyclopaedias and anthologies
Books | Booklets | Editions | Site reviews | Forthcoming | Musical works
Link to the Mass Media Music Scholars' Press
(Please note that all writings in this list have been published in hard copy form.
Interviews and short reviews published in newspapers etc. are not included in this material.
To access web publications, click on Online Texts).

Articles published in journals, encyclopaedias and anthologies

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

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

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

  4. ‘“Fernando” - Analyse af affekt i ABBA’s “Fernando”’. Dansk Musiktidskrift, 1979/3. 1979, København: Dansk Tonekunstnerselskab: 124-156

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

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

  7. 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

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

  9. 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

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

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

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

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

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

  15. 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

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

  17. 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

  18. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  28. 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

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

  30. 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

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

  32. 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

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

  34. ‘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

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

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

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

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

  39. 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

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

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

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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

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

  47. 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.

  48. 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.

  49. 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].

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

  51. 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.

  52. 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.

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

  54. ‘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.

  55. ‘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.

  56. ‘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.

  57. ‘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.

  58. (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.

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

  60. ‘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.

  61. (with Karen E Collins): ‘Industrialna estetyka dzwiekowa (rekonstrukcja dzwiekowych przeszlosci z perspektywy wspólczesnej alienacji przyszlej dystopii)’ Gošiniec Sztuki, 1/8 Rok VII Plock. 2003, Plock: Plocki Ošrodek Kultury i Sztuki: 34-47. ISBN·1505·5299 (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).
  62. ‘Analisando a música popular: teoria, método e prática’. Em Pauta, 14. 2003, Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul: 5-42. ISSN·0103·7420 (Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música).
  63. ‘Interconversione gestuale e precisione connotativa’. Musica/Realtà, 76. 2005, Lucca: LIM: 89-120. ISBN·88·7096·419·1 (Marzo 2005; Italian version of #64).
  64. ‘Gestural interconversion and connotative precision’. Film Music International, 13 (2005:1)
  65. ‘Para qué sirve un musema? Antidepresivos y la gestión musical de la angustia’. Musica popular na América Latina - Pontos de escuta, ed. Martha Ulhôa & Ana Maria Ochoa. 2005, Porto Alegre: Editora da Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul: 22-51.

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Books [buy them online!]

  1. 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]

  2. 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]

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

  4. 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] .

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

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

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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 siècle. Volume 1: Circuits, Volume 16 Numéro 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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