One could call «industrial musicology» the study of the musical life in factories and workshops. Unlike agrarian societies, there are very few works about industrial workers’ musical activity, neither at the Catalan Countries nor Europe. Based on British and Catalan scholars’ few theoretical works, our research Música popular i industrialització a Menorca, from which we present some conclusions in this paper, pretends to expand the working frames for future ethnomusico-logical research in this same field