Overview
- Discusses the significance of popular music heritage
- Explores popular music heritage as a means of re-presenting rock and pop artists
- Responds to the increasing acknowledgement of the contribution of popular music to the shaping of contemporary culture
Part of the book series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity (PMCI)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Media and Performance
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book critically discusses the significance of popular music heritage as a means of remembering and re-presenting rock and pop artists, their music and their place in the culture of contemporary society. Since the mid-1990s, the contribution of popular music to the shaping of contemporary history and heritage has increasingly been acknowledged. In the same period, exhibitions of popular music related artefacts have become more commonplace in museums, and facilities dedicated to the celebration of popular music history and heritage, such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, have opened their doors. Popular music heritage has found other mediums of expression too. There is now a significant popular music heritage media, including books, magazines, films and television series. Fans collect and display their own mementos, while the live performances of tribute bands and classic albums fulfill an increasing desire for the live spectacle of popular music heritage. This book will be crucial reading for established scholars as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students studying popular music heritage.
Reviews
“Clear, highly insightful, informative and timely, this book traces the growth of pop and rock into becoming a consecrated and enshrined realm of modern culture. Bennett explores the incarnation of pop and rock heritage in physical locations, collectible objects, media genres, internet websites and performance formats. Essential and comprehensive, the book is bound to become indispensable for anyone interested in the tricky issue of the cultural longevity of pop and rock musicians and albums.”(Motti Regev, Professor of Sociology at The Open University, Israel, and author of Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity (2013))
“From tourism to tribute performances to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Andy Bennett shows how the heritage industry successfully resurrects cultural memories and generational myths from the pop music of the not-too-distant past, while at the same time generating new meaningful experiences for millions of fans, young and old.” (David Grazian, Professor of Sociology and Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia. He has written and edited numerous books including Music, Style and Aging (2013), Music Scenes (co-edited with Richard A. Petersen, 2004) and Popular Music and Youth Culture (2000).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Music Heritage
Book Subtitle: Places, Objects, Images and Texts
Authors: Andy Bennett
Series Title: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08296-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08295-5Published: 04 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08298-6Published: 05 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08296-2Published: 03 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6613
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 181
Topics: Music, Cultural Heritage, Popular Culture