Richard Middleton FBA is Emeritus Professor of Music at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Education

Middleton studied at Clare College, Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 and at the University of York

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, where his PhD

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 was supervised by Wilfrid Mellers

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.

Career

Middleton previously taught at the University of Birmingham

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 and the Open University

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. He was appointed to his present position in 1998.

In 2004 Professor Middleton was elected to a Fellowship by the British Academy

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.

Middleton retired from his post at Newcastle in 2005.

Author

• Pop Music and the Blues: A Study of the Relationship and Its Significance. London
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  : Gollancz, 1972. ISBN 0-575-01442-3.
• Studying Popular Music. Philadelphia: Open University
  Open University
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   Press, 1990. ISBN 0-335-15276-7.
• Voicing the Popular: On the Subjects of Popular Music. London
  London
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  : Routledge
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  , 2006. ISBN 978-0-415-97590-2.

Editor or co-editor

• Reading Pop. Oxford University Press
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  , 2000. ISBN 0-19-816612-5
• Clayton, Martin, Trevor Herbert, and Richard Middleton, eds. The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-93844-9

External links

• Prof. Richard Middleton - Profile, background, publications, and other detailed information from the University of Newcastle Arts & Cultures Staff index