Taking notes: Mapping and teaching popular music in higher education

This investigation into the provision and delivery of popular music courses in higher education started with a request to NAMHE (the subject association for music in HE) for ideas for useful projects that the HEA might fund. One of the first responses proposed that the teaching of the analytical and theoretical aspects of music normally associated with the more 'traditional' types of music degree courses is rather more problematic in the field of popular music in higher education and presents a number of challenges