About Richard Middleton
Born 1945. Richard Middleton is a musicologist.
Richard Middleton is Emeritus Professor of Music at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is also the founder and co-ordinating editor of the journal Popular Music.
Education Middleton studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at the University of York, where his PhD was supervised by Wilfrid Mellers.
Career Middleton previously taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University. He was appointed to his position at Newcastle in 1998.
In 2004, Middleton was elected to a Fellowship by the British Academy.
Middleton retired from his post at Newcastle in 2005.
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British musicologist
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