Richard Middleton FBA is

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of Music at

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. He is also the founder and co-ordinating editor of the journal ''Popular Music''.

Education

Middleton studied at Clare College,

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and at the

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, where his

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was supervised by Wilfrid Mellers.

Career

Middleton previously taught at the

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and the

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. He was appointed to his present position in 1998. In 2004, Professor Middleton was elected to a Fellowship by the

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. Middleton retired from his post at Newcastle in 2005.

Bibliography

Author

*''Pop Music and the Blues: A Study of the Relationship and Its Significance''. London: Gollancz, 1972. . *''Studying Popular Music''. Philadelphia:

Press, 1990. . *''Voicing the Popular: On the Subjects of Popular Music''. London:

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, 2006. .

Editor or co-editor

*''Reading Pop''.

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, 2000. * Clayton, Martin, Trevor Herbert, and Richard Middleton, eds. ''The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction''. London: Routledge, 2003.

References

External links

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