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[skyecaptain]

I would normally punt this to Twitter, but it's more than 140 characters -- I have here a list of people who do rock/pop music theory from a Populah Music Theorist (I use the term "populah" to connote snootiness and constipation -- most of the book is THA DREGS, so I won't mention its title or author except to say it's way more in touch with

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[dubdobdee]

I've heard of everyone on the first list, and I think read stuff by all of them them exceopt Lipsitz -- possibly also own stuff by most of them, have to wait till tomorrow to check*. I definitely know three of the names on the second list (Cohen, Garafolo, Nagus). Will have to remind myself which ones are more useful though. Frank reviewed a book by Cohen, didn't he? Odd that Hebdige isn't there...

*No bulb in the room with most of the books!

[koganbot]

Ones whose names ring a bell:

Angela McRobbie, Dave Laing, Richard Middleton, Lawrence Grossberg, Nelson George, Sara Cohen, Steve Jones, Keith Nagus, Deena Weinstein.

[Two minutes later] One whose name should have rung a bell, because it turns out I've read an article by him:

Will Straw

He along with McRobbie, Laing, and Grossberg have stuff in the Frith-Goodwin On Record anthology, which I believe I read every word of. Middleton and Laing had pieces in the issue of Popular Music that contained my review of Sara Cohen's Rock Culture In Liverpool.

Nelson George I think of as being one of us - a musicwrite person rather than an academic (not that the two need be mutually exclusive). I remember him as a good, non-flashy, straightforward reviewer of soul and r&b and a bit of hip-hop for the Voice. Haven't read his book. He chose a piece of Tom's for one of the Da Capo best-ofs