If you study popular music be only studying the words and their socio-political or psychological effects, then you are not just neglecting the music part, but the music + words (the way the music interacts with the words), and you are probably neglecting the poetry of the words while you are at it, insofar as the poetry of the song lyrics is tied up in their musicality. You are also probably also missing the culture part.
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What I've identified as the "literary turn" in Flamenco might have its complement, critically speaking, in the "cultural turn" in musicology.
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