《流行音乐文化教程》针对传媒音乐专业教学的内容、体例、风格和教学实践的可行性等关键性问题，突出了传媒音乐教育的独特性、传媒音乐教育的目标性、理论教学的可操作性、音乐文化知识面的系统性。 《流行音乐文化教程》以历史和国别纵横两条线索，对发轫于20世纪的世界流行音乐文化做了系统性的阐述，并着重论述了电影、广播、电视特别是唱片产业等大众传媒对流行音乐的影响和推动作用，引导学生将流行音乐文化知识及相关问题融入“传媒音乐人”这一专业目标培养的思考和实践当中。

Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video. Through detailed examination of films, television programs and popular music, together with analysis of the economic, technological and cultural determinants of their production and consumption, the book argues that popular music has been increasingly influenced by its visual economy. Though engaging with the debates that surround postmodernism, the book suggests that what most characterizes the relationship between popular music and the screen is a strong sense of continuity, expressed through institutional structures, representational strategies and the ideology of "entertainment."