Description
| Product ID: | 9781783089697 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Remembering Popular Music’s Past |
| Subtitle: | Memory-Heritage-History |
| Authors: | Author: Lauren Istvandity, Zelmarie Cantillon, Sarah Baker |
| Page Count: | 254 |
| Subjects: | Museology and heritage studies, Museology & heritage studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'Remembering Popular Music's Past' focuses on the transformation of popular music into heritage, and the role of history and memory in this process. The book interrogates diverse examples of the way popular music's past is remembered, with particular emphasis on precarity in the construction, curation, display, negotiation, and perception of popular music's past. ‘Remembering Popular Music’s Past’ capitalises on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music’s material past and on scholarly explorations of the ways in which popular music, as heritage, is produced, legitimised and conferred cultural and historical significance. The chapters in this collection consider the spaces, practices and representations that constitute popular music heritage in order to elucidate how popular music’s past is lived in the present. Thus the focus is on the transformation of popular music into heritage, and the role of history and memory in this transformation. The collection is particularly interested in the ways in which popular music’s past becomes enacted in the present. The chapters discuss a diverse array of topics but are unified by inquiry into the construction, curation, display, negotiation and perception of popular music’s past. The collection presents a critical perspective on academics’ involvement in ‘historian’s’ work of ‘reconstruction’ of the past through archival and analytical research. The cultural studies framework adopted in the collection encompasses unique approaches to popular music historiography, sociology, film analysis, and archival and museal work. Broadly ‘Remembering Popular Music’s Past’ deals with issues of precarity in popular music heritage, history and memory. The collection is a timely addition to a subfield of popular music studies and critical heritage studies that has grown exponentially in the past ten years. |
| Imprint Name: | Anthem Press |
| Publisher Name: | Anthem Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-06-15 |
