introduction

Popular Musicology Online is a refereed academic journal with an international advisory panel of leading popular musicologists. Under continuous editorship since its original hardcopy founding in 1991 (as Popular Musicology Quarterly), PMO has been an innovative voice in the development of critical approaches to the field. Intended for all scholars of popular music, whatever their discipline, PMO offers its readers a stimulating window on some of the most pioneering work taking place in the fastest growing area of music research.


latest publications

Mark Teehan, The Byrds, "Eight Miles High", the Gavin Report, and Media Censorship of Alleged 'Drug Songs' in 1966: An Assesment
— published in Issue 4, "Folk, World Music, Jazz"

Brent Wood, The Musical Imagination of Phil Lesh: The Grateful Dead's Difference Engine
— published in Issue 4, "Folk, World Music, Jazz"

David Carter, Surface Noise: A Cagean Approach to Electronica
— published in Issue 1, "Musicological Critique"

Marko Aho, My Favourite Things and the Experience of Subjective Temporality: A Case Study of Rainbow's 'All Night Long'
— published in Issue 4, "Folk, World Music, Jazz"

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latest reviews

Andrew L. Cope, Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music
 (
Date published: September 3, 2010)

Jon Stratton, Jews, Race and Popular Music
(Date published: June 25, 2010)

Heather Laing, The Gendered Score
and Stan Hawkins, The British Pop Dandy
(Date published: October 5, 2009)

George Plasketes, B-sides, Undercurrents and Overtones
(Date published: October 3, 2009)