# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-tagg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:13.252Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-tagg"
name: "Philip Tagg"
slug: "philip-tagg"
description: "Philip Tagg was a British musicologist, writer and educator. He was co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and author of several influential books on popular music and music semiotics."
tagline: "British musicologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Tagg_in_June_2014.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1944-02-22"
deathDate: "2024-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.409252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://tagg.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Philip Tagg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Tagg"
    title: "Philip Tagg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Tagg"
    title: "Philip Tagg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%BE_%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%AF"
    title: "فیلیپ تاگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Tagg"
    title: "Philip Tagg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Tagg"
    title: "Philip Tagg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B0"
    title: "フィリップ・タグ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Tagg"
    title: "Philip Tagg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3901478"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump