El análisis musical y los estudios sobre música popular urbana: de la doble negación a la educación en las discrepancias participatorias

Musical analysis is a first-rate methodological tool for the study of popular urban music in connection with historical, cultural, social and political processes. The academic trajectory of the relationship between the two fields of study can be examined in terms of their tensions and disputes, but it must also be assessed on the basis of the outstanding educational potential of the encounter between musical analysis and studies on popular music. In this article we present a state of the art about the relations between these two disciplinary sets showing, in a first part, the possible causes of a double denial of musical analysis in popular music studies, exposing after that approaches that bet for a pedagogical renovation based both on hermeneutic models of popular songs and centred on cooperative musical analysis. This theorisation is exemplified through a case study, taking into account the links between musical analysis and rock studies in the field of musicology. The second part of the article diagnoses the presence of analytical approaches to popular music in higher education by examining the curricula of the seven Spanish public universities that currently offer the Degree in History and Music Sciences. Finally, there are some final reflections that connect music education, music analysis and studies on popular music.