Beschreibung:
This book offers a compelling, in-depth overview of popular music's significance as an aspect of contemporary history and heritage. Bringing together a selection of wide-ranging contributions from Europe and Australia, this book demonstrates 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.
Introduction: Popular Music, Cultural Memory, and Heritage 1. Historical Records, National Constructions: The Contemporary Popular Music Archive 2. Popular Music and Materiality: Memorabilia and Memory Traces 3. Articulations of Identity and Distinction: The Meanings of Language in Dutch Popular Music 4. Not Singing in Tune: The Hor 29 Novembar Choir and the Invention of a Translocal Do-It-Yourself Popular Music Heritage in Austria 5. The Aesthetics of Slovene Popular Music for Different Generations of Slovene Listeners: The Contribution of Audience Research 6. Talk of Heritage: Critical Benchmarks and DIY Preservationism in Progressive Rock