Remembering Popular Musics Past
Memory-Heritage-History
Edited by Lauren Istvandity, Sarah Baker, Zelmarie Cantillon

Publication date:
15 June 2019Publisher
Anthem PressDimensions:
229x153mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781783089697
Remembering Popular Music’s Past capitalizes 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, legitimized and conferred cultural and historical significance. The chapters in this collection consider the spaces, practices and representations that constitute popular music heritage 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 process. The cultural studies framework adopted in Remembering Popular Music’s Past encompasses unique approaches to popular music historiography, sociology, film analysis, and archival and museal work. Broadly, the collection deals with the precarious nature of popular music heritage, history and memory.
‘This collection enriches our understanding of the diverse ways in which popular music’s past is preserved. It offers a critical perspective on the role of popular music in discourses of heritage, history and memory. Through its rich case studies, the collection convincingly explains the complexities of remembering popular music.’
—Arno van der Hoeven, Assistant Professor in Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands