Editing Musicology (section)

===Popular music studies===
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Popular music studies, known, "misleadingly",<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Moore|editor-first= Allan| year= 2003|title=Analyzing Popular Music| page=2|publisher= Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77120-7 | quote= 'Popular musicology' should be read as the musicological investigation of popular music, rather than the accessible investigation of music!}}</ref> as ''popular musicology'', emerged in the 1980s as an increasing number of musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other varieties of historians of American and European culture began to write about popular music past and present. The first journal focusing on popular music studies was ''Popular Music'' which began publication in 1981.<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/all-issues ''Popular Music - All Issues''] (journal), [[Cambridge University Press]]</ref> The same year an academic society solely devoted to the topic was formed, the [[International Association for the Study of Popular Music]]. The association's founding was partly motivated by the interdisciplinary agenda of popular musicology though the group has been characterized by a polarized 'musicological' and 'sociological' approach also typical of popular musicology.{{sfn|Moore|2003|p=4}}