has apparently told the Telegraph that pop music isn't worth academic study. 
I wonder if this news will ever filter through to the folk at radio 4 who 
insist on long dreary programmes of screaming electric guitar clips 
punctuated by word wanks. There seem to be more and more such programmes of 
late.  Anyone for the sociological contribution of Abba to the raging debate 
about Jansenism?

Oxymel of Squill wrote:
> has apparently told the Telegraph that pop music isn't worth academic study. 
> I wonder if this news will ever filter through to the folk at radio 4 who 
> insist on long dreary programmes of screaming electric guitar clips 
> punctuated by word wanks. There seem to be more and more such programmes of 
> late.  Anyone for the sociological contribution of Abba to the raging debate 
> about Jansenism? 
> 
> 

I'm with you there. I suppose the problem is that there's something 
Marxist about elevating "popular" music to the status of "classical" 
music, kind of counter-elitist. So you have to have programmes 
juxtaposing the insane ramblings of John Lennon or the pseudo-Chaucerian 
  mutterings of Rob Zimmerman with proper music. After all, that's what 
R4's about, a discourse in righting class wrongs.