pop music "theory" teaching in the US and the UK?

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Hi, I've just finished a short thesis about the "aesthetic history of pop music" for a french university, and I just wanted to know which american and british university departments could be interested in my work. French academics aren't really fond of thinking about pop music, so I'd like to export my small talents.

Any ideas?

― Etienne Menu (Etienne), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

this is a good question!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 15 December 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

but if french academics aren't thinking about it then maybe nobody is?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 15 December 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

If I recall correctly they have a course in the Netherlands which focuses on Pop music. And hey there's a Madonna University!

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 15 December 2003 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

no surprise, nathalie. just because French academics see themselves as "above" (American-led) popular culture doesn't mean Northern or Central European ones do ... I'm sure there are universities elsewhere in mainland Europe, in countries which don't have that instinctive Americoscepticism we associate with France, which would take such things seriously. I *should* know which British universities would be interested, but lack of recent experience means I don't, unfortunately :).

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

What's yankophobic about France!!?? France is the home of serious, enthusiaistic discussion of US pop culture, in the cinema at least, and Faulkner, Hemingway, the crime thriller, were all recognized there much before they were here by the likes of Sartre.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 15 December 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Simon Frith at Stirling University and John Storey at Sunderland are your men.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 15 December 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool
http://www.liv.ac.uk/ipm/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 15 December 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd have mentioned that, but McCartney's involved and he's a cunt, so i didn't.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 15 December 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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