Abstract The article presents a survey of research on popular music carried out at the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw. It discusses the contents of valuable studies undertaken at the Institute but still unpublished and kept at the Library of the Institute of Musicology. The authors’ aim has been to facilitate the exchange of ideas with other musicological centres conducting research on popular music, as well as providing other musicologists and scholars working in the field with an overview the research undertaken to date. Popular music will be defined here as music composed in the 20th and 21st centuries, circulating in mass distribution in the form of various types of recordings, as well as performed in music clubs and at outdoor events; music that has its roots in jazz on the one hand and the youth revolution of the 1950s (the rise of rock and roll) on the other. We present a survey of B.A. and M.A. theses discussed under a number of key headings (jazz, folk, rock/pop, and electronic music, as well as works dealing with popular music in the context of research into musical culture at large). We also describe the University’s study framework, which was the original context for those texts. Our survey of the library holdings reveals an unexpectedly large body of writings on popular music submitted for a degree at the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw. The research has already opened many doors, defined and more than outlined many fields of study, describing them in quite a detailed manner. This is obviously good news: the existing works pose new questions, highlight areas of controversy, and suggest new research methods. In due course, the research has also begun to yield PhD dissertations written on this subject at the Institute.

中文翻译：

---

1953-2015年在华沙大学音乐学研究所进行的流行音乐研究

摘要 本文介绍了华沙大学音乐学研究所对流行音乐的研究调查。它讨论了在该研究所进行但仍未发表并保存在音乐学研究所图书馆的有价值研究的内容。作者的目的是促进与其他进行流行音乐研究的音乐学中心交流思想，并为该领域的其他音乐学家和学者提供迄今为止进行的研究的概述。流行音乐在这里被定义为 20 世纪和 21 世纪创作的音乐，以各种类型的录音形式大量传播，以及在音乐俱乐部和户外活动中演奏；一方面源于爵士乐，另一方面源于 1950 年代的青年革命（摇滚乐的兴起）。我们对在许多关键标题下讨论的 BA 和 MA 论文进行了调查（爵士、民谣、摇滚/流行和电子音乐，以及在整个音乐文化研究的背景下处理流行音乐的作品）。我们还描述了大学的学习框架，这是这些文本的原始背景。我们对图书馆藏品的调查显示，华沙大学音乐学研究所提交了大量关于流行音乐的著作，数量出乎意料地大。这项研究已经打开了许多门，定义了许多研究领域，并不仅概述了其概述，还以相当详细的方式描述了它们。这显然是个好消息：现有的作品提出了新的问题，突出争议领域，并提出新的研究方法。在适当的时候，该研究也开始在研究所产生关于这个主题的博士论文。