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This man's "Notes On" series is all over the place, and very handy it is too. Several of the descriptions I have seen characterise the series as a musicological analysis, but is Mr Pollack actually a musicologist, or is he e.g. a software engineer who spent a lot of time on Usenet? Is this his real name? Is he still alive? Does he exist, teach music, work in a university etc? Has he written anything else, does he have any publishing credits? I notice that a Google search for "'alan w pollack' -beatles" returns just 53 hits, and various permutations of his name, with or without the W, aren't very helpful. - Ashley Pomeroy 22:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I am Alan W. Pollack. See the following link: http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/interview.shtml I am not a practicing musicologist by profession, but I do have the education and qualifications, including a PhD in music theory and composition from University of Pennsylvania. Awpboston ( talk) 16:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Coo. For the record I think the "Notes On" series is super, on a par with the more recent Pushing Ahead of the Dame (which does the same for David Bowie and has been featured on TIME's website). It's an excellent example of good, original, self-published internet writing. Unfortunately it trickled out on Usenet in the early days of the modern internet so it hasn't had the recognition it deserved, but it has been cited in several print books and it's all over Wikipedia. I originally asked the question because Wikipedia itself has had problems with unqualified, inexperienced conmen bluffing their way into positions of power and influence, and although Pollack's writing seems authoritative to my untrained mind, what if the musical analysis is complete rubbish? The PhD suggests strongly that it's not. - Ashley Pomeroy ( talk) 16:30, 22 February 2016 (UTC)