ABSTRACT
Numerous frameworks for accommodating the analysis of pop within musicology have been forthcoming, as musicologists engaged in popular music scholarship have set out to demonstrate how music-theoretical approaches need to be modified to accommodate music produced by the media. During the post-war period, rebellion and modernity were two interlinked concepts in shaping an ideology that quickly legitimised certain musical trends. By the early 1980s, musicological research in popular music had started to increase, providing the necessary stimulus for generating a corpus of work in this field. Multi-levels of organisation harness the intrinsic functions of musical codes and their processes in musical composition. Music can profile identities through us mapping the symbolic with the imaginative. The greatest challenge in learning to read the pop score lies in us devising interpretative tools that can be mapped to a wide range of musical influences and conflicting values. The chapter also provides an outline of this book.
