Bestel Nu Music’s Meanings A Modern Musicology for Non-musos – Philip Tagg

I wrote this book for anyone interested in music who wants to understand how it expresses much more than just itself. This work is based on decades of teaching subjects like Popular Music Analysis and Music and the Moving Image to two sorts of student: those learning under a MUSIC AND NOTHING ELSE regime and students from more of an EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE MUSIC background. The musical competence of ‘non-musos’ has been an important driving force in this attempt to bridge that gap and to open up the SOUNDs of…