Philip Tagg
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| - | Philip Tagg (orn 1944, Northamptonshire, UK) is a [[music theorist]] who has written on [[popular music]]. | + | Philip Tagg (orn 1944, Northamptonshire, UK) is a [[music theorist]] who has written on [[popular music]]. He coined the term museme and writes on semantics of music. |
| - | == Museme == | + | == See also == |
| - | [[museme]] | + | *[[museme]] |
| - | A '''museme''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museme] is a minimal unit of [[music]]al meaning, analogous to a [[morpheme]] in [[linguistics]], "the basic unit of musical expression which in the framework of one given musical system is not further divisible without destruction of meaning." A museme may: | + | *[[Black music]] |
| - | :be broken down into component parts which are not in themselves meaningful within the framework of the musical language...but are nevertheless basic elements (not units) of musical expression which, when altered, may be compared to the phonemes of speech in that they alter the museme (morpheme) of which they are part and may thereby also alter its meaning. (Tagg 1979, p.71) | + | |
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| - | The term was coined by [[Philip Tagg]] and derived from the work of [[Charles Seeger]] (Middleton 1990, p.189). | + | |
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| - | '''Musematic repetition''' ("repetition of musemes" (ibid, p.269)) is simple [[repetition]] "at the level of the short figure, often used to generate an entire structural framework." (ibid, p.189) and contrasted with [[discursive repetition]], in which the repetition is not so precise. | + | |
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| === Bibliography === | === Bibliography === | ||
| Fabbri, Franco 1982. “A Theory of Popular Music Genres: Two Applications.” In ''Popular Music Perspectives'', edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg, 52-81. Göteborg and Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd. | Fabbri, Franco 1982. “A Theory of Popular Music Genres: Two Applications.” In ''Popular Music Perspectives'', edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg, 52-81. Göteborg and Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd. | ||
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- 'Black music' is much more common than 'white music', probably for the same sort of reasons that expressions like 'women's history' or 'women's music' would cause far fewer eyebrows to be raised than 'men's history' or 'men's music' [...]. Such terms are relative to the hegemony of the culture of their user, so 'men's music' and 'white music' will sound stranger in a culture dominated by white males than 'women's music' or 'black music'.--Philip Tagg, 1989 [1]
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Biography
Philip Tagg (orn 1944, Northamptonshire, UK) is a music theorist who has written on popular music. He coined the term museme and writes on semantics of music.
See also
Bibliography
Fabbri, Franco 1982. “A Theory of Popular Music Genres: Two Applications.” In Popular Music Perspectives, edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg, 52-81. Göteborg and Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd.
