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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Philip Tagg" <ptagg@sympatico.ca></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>cercledemusicologie@groupesyahoo.ca</I><BR>To: <I><cercledemusicologie@groupesyahoo.ca></I><BR>Subject: <I>RE: [cercledemusicologie] Future of Music Policy Summit: Registration Open!</I><BR>Date: <I>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:14:21 -0400</I><BR>>Bonjour et Merci, Caroline.<BR>><BR>>Just to let the Cercle know that I sent the McGill music dean the following<BR>>email (thanks to Caroline for posting the item). Peut-être certains d'entre<BR>>vous pourrez découvrir des idées intéressantes parmi les textes en ligne<BR>>dont vous trouverez ci-dessous les hyperliens.<BR>><BR>>Philip T<BR>>=========<BR>><BR>>Courriel envoyé par P Tagg au doyen de la Faculté de musique à McGill le 18<BR>>août
2006<BR>>============================================================================<BR>>=========<BR>><BR>>Dear Dean,<BR>><BR>>I take this opportunity of expressing my interest in participating in the<BR>>Future of Music Coalition 6th annual Policy Summit.<BR>><BR>>Having founded IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular<BR>>Music) in 1981 and having taught various aspects of and approaches to music<BR>>qualifiable as "popular" since 1971, it would be surprising if I were to<BR>>have had no coherent thoughts nor written anything about the future of music<BR>>and music studies. Several aspects of the future of musics are of<BR>>considerable interest to me. They are, in short and with reference to texts<BR>>accessible online:<BR>><BR>>1. Copyright matters. The problems caused by commercially orientated<BR>>legislation
regulating intellectual and artistic property rights; viable<BR>>solutions to such problems (partly explained in "Copyright vs. the<BR>>democratic right to know" at http://tagg.org/articles/wipout.html). Other<BR>>copyright matters are explained in direct reference to materials on my<BR>>website (www.tagg.org), especially at<BR>>http://tagg.org/infowhy.html#Copyright. One particular set of solutions is<BR>>presented on the Mass Media Music Scholars' Press site<BR>>(http://www.mediamusicstudies.net/mmmsp/background.html).<BR>><BR>>2. Music education. The institutionally organised study of musics outside<BR>>the Central European art music canon has become increasingly common in many<BR>>parts of the world. However, the structural organisation of<BR>>tertiary-education music institutions remains very much that associated with<BR>>particular needs of
the classical canon and thwarts efforts to reflect the<BR>>technological and artistic realities of musical practices in the digital,<BR>>mass-media phase of the post-Edison era. For some thoughts on this set of<BR>>problems, please see Chapters 1 and 2 in "Ten Little Title Tunes" ("The<BR>>problem of musical absolutism" -- http://tagg.org/bookxtrax/titles/Ch1.pdf<BR>>and "The decline of musical absolutism" --<BR>>http://tagg.org/bookxtrax/titles/Ch2.pdf). See also "Popular Music Studies:<BR>>a brief introduction" (PowerPoint presentation at<BR>>http://tagg.org/teaching/PMusStudsIntro.ppt) and "The Göteborg connection -<BR>>Lessons in the history and politics of popular music education and research<BR>>(1997)" at http://tagg.org/articles/gbgcnnct.html.<BR>><BR>>3. Utopian and dystopian visions of imminent musical futures. See for<BR>>example "Music
2017 - A British Dystopia", used by 'Copenhagen Wild Cards'<BR>>as press release material for their futurologist exhibition and events in<BR>>June 1996 and online at http://tagg.org/articles/dystop96.html.<BR>><BR>>Hoping you will find these ideas of interest and of relevance to the<BR>>upcoming Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit and looking forward to<BR>>hearing from you shortly.<BR>><BR>>Yours sincerely,<BR>><BR>>Philip Tagg<BR>>============<BR>>Philip Tagg<BR>>(Prof. de musicologie, Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal)<BR>>www.tagg.org ••• HOME / DOMICILE ••• 3600 Van Horne #411 Montréal, QC H3S<BR>>1R6 Canada Tél. +1 514 737-2244 ‘When I give food to the poor they call me<BR>>a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist.’<BR>>(Dom Hélder Câmara, 1909-1999, Bishop of Recife) ••• No
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