Popular Music, Cultural Memory,
and Heritage
Popular music is increasingly being represented and celebrated as an aspect of contemporary cultural history and heritage. In many places across the world, popular music heritage sites including museums, archives, commemorative plaques adorning buildings, and what could be referred to as DIY music heritage initiatives constitute some of the key ways in which popular music artists, scenes, and events are being remembered. Bringing together a selection of wide-ranging contributions, the purpose of this book is to present a number of case studies from Europe and Australia that demonstrate the variety of ways in which popular music is being cast as cultural heritage and as a medium that invokes the collective memory of successive generations whose identity and sense of cultural belonging have often been indelibly inscribed by the musical soundscapes of their teen and early adult years.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Popular Music and Society.
Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He has authored and edited over 20 books including Popular Music and Youth Culture, Music, Style and Aging, and Music Scenes (with Richard A. Peterson).
Susanne Janssen is Professor of Sociology of Media and Culture, and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is also the Academic Director of the Erasmus Research Centre in Media, Communication and Culture. She has published widely on the agents and institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and valuation of popular music, literature and other art forms.
Popular Music, Cultural Memory,
and Heritage
Popular music is increasingly being represented and celebrated as an aspect of contemporary cultural history and heritage. In many places across the world, popular music heritage sites including museums, archives, commemorative plaques adorning buildings, and what could be referred to as DIY music heritage initiatives constitute some of the key ways in which popular music artists, scenes, and events are being remembered. Bringing together a selection of wide-ranging contributions, the purpose of this book is to present a number of case studies from Europe and Australia that demonstrate the variety of ways in which popular music is being cast as cultural heritage and as a medium that invokes the collective memory of successive generations whose identity and sense of cultural belonging have often been indelibly inscribed by the musical soundscapes of their teen and early adult years.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Popular Music and Society.
Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He has authored and edited over 20 books including Popular Music and Youth Culture, Music, Style and Aging, and Music Scenes (with Richard A. Peterson).
Susanne Janssen is Professor of Sociology of Media and Culture, and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is also the Academic Director of the Erasmus Research Centre in Media, Communication and Culture. She has published widely on the agents and institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and valuation of popular music, literature and other art forms.
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in Popular Music and Society, volume 39, issue 1 (February 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Popular Music, Cultural Memory, and Heritage
Andy Bennett and Susanne Janssen
Popular Music and Society, volume 39, issue 1 (February 2016), pp. 17
Chapter 1
Historical Records, National Constructions: The Contemporary Popular Music Archive
Sarah Baker, Peter Doyle and Shane Homan
Popular Music and Society, volume 39, issue 1 (February 2016), pp. 827
Chapter 2
Popular Music and Materiality: Memorabilia and Memory Traces
Andy Bennett and Ian Rogers
Popular Music and Society, volume 39, issue 1 (February 2016), pp. 2842
Chapter 3
Articulations of Identity and Distinction: The Meanings of Language in Dutch Popular Music
Arno van der Hoeven, Susanne Janssen and Simone Driessen
Popular Music and Society, volume 39, issue 1 (February 2016), pp. 4358
Chapter 4
Not Singing in Tune: The Hor 29 Novembar Choir and the Invention of a Translocal Do-It-Yourself Popular Music Heritage in Austria
Rosa Reitsamer
Popular Music and Society, volume 39, issue 1 (February 2016), pp. 5975
Chapter 5
The Aesthetics of Slovene Popular Music for Different Generations of Slovene Listeners: The Contribution of Audience Research
Natalija Majsova
Popular Music and Society, volume 39, issue 1 (February 2016), pp. 7696
Chapter 6
Talk of Heritage: Critical Benchmarks and DIY Preservationism in Progressive Rock
Timothy J. Dowd, Trent Ryan and Yun Tai
Popular Music and Society, volume 39, issue 1 (February 2016), pp. 97125
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