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From: davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (John M Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: 2nd rate European Conference
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.195628.20624@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 91 19:56:28 GMT
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	Eliot isn't the only person around whose eyebrows were raised
(and not in enlightenment, to paraphrase D. Hilgenberg) by the
announcement of the 2nd European Conference on Music Analysis.

	The topic that surprised me was that which follows:

>b) 'Popular music': analyses of songs from the 1950s to the 90s
> 
>Song-form,  linked  with means of mass communication,  has  been
>radically  transformed in recent decades. Generations  of  youth
>have  been  brought  up  on this  repertory.  For  the  critical
>understanding  of  it,  it  is  essential  to  develop  adequate
>analytical methods.

	This is perhaps the most patronizing statement I have read in
a conference announcement.  Would someone please vindicate the above
passage?

-davisonj@medusa.cs.purdue.edu