[ecrea] New Book: Sites of Popular Music Heritage

SITES OF POPULAR MUSIC HERITAGE:
Memories, Histories, Places

Edited by Sara Cohen, Robert Knifton, Marion Leonard, Les Roberts

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415824507/

This volume examines the location of memories and histories of popular 
music and its multiple pasts, exploring the different ‘places’ in which 
popular music can be situated, including the local physical site, the 
museum storeroom and exhibition space, and the digitized archive and 
display space made possible by the internet. Contributors from a broad 
range of disciplines such as archive studies, popular music studies, 
media and cultural studies, leisure and tourism, sociology, museum 
studies, communication studies, cultural geography, and social 
anthropology visit the specialized locus of popular music histories and 
heritage, offering a diverse set of approaches. Popular music studies 
has increasingly engaged with popular music histories, exploring memory 
processes and considering identity, collective and cultural memory, and 
notions of popular culture’s heritage values, yet few accounts have 
spatially located such trends to focus on the spaces and places where we 
encounter and engender our relationship with popular music’s history and 
legacies. This book offers a timely re-evaluation of such sites, 
reinserting them into the narratives of popular music and offering new 
perspectives on their function and significance within the production of 
popular music heritage.

Contents: 1. Introduction: Locating Popular Music Heritage Sara Cohen, 
Robert Knifton, Marion Leonard, and Les Roberts Part I: Problematizing 
Popular Music Heritage 2. Popular Music and the ‘Problem’ of Heritage 
Andy Bennett 3. The Heritage Obsession: The History of Rock and 
Challenges of ‘Museum Mummification’. A French Perspective Philippe Le 
Guern Part II: Mapping, Music, and Memory 4. Mapping the Politics of 
‘Race’, Place and Memory in Liverpool’s Popular Music Heritage Brett 
Lashua 5. "Still here?": A Geospatial Survey of Welsh-language Popular 
Music Craig Owen Jones Part III: Archives and Virtual Sites of Memory 6. 
‘Fillin’ in Any Blanks I Can’: Online Archival Practice and Virtual 
Sites of Musical Memory Jez Collins and Paul Long 7. Locating the 
"Bristol Sound": Archiving Music as Everyday Life Michelle Henning and 
Rehan Hyder 8. Saving ‘Rubbish’: Preserving Popular Music’s Material 
Culture in Amateur Archives and Museums Alison Huber and Sarah Baker 9. 
Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Women’s Liberation Music Archive 
Deborah Withers Part IV: Nostalgia and Heritage Practices 10. "You Had 
To Be There": Memories of the Glasgow Apollo Audience Kenneth Forbes 11. 
Engaging Nostalgia: Popular Music and Memory in Museums Marion Leonard 
and Rob Knifton 12. The Remembering: Heritage-Work at US 
Progressive-Rock Festivals, 1983 to 2012 Tim Dowd Part V: Pilgrimage and 
Sacred Sites 13. Pilgrimage, Place, and Preservation: The Real and 
Imagined Geography of the Grateful Dead in Song, on Tour, and in 
Cyberspace John V. Ward 14. Putting the Psycho in Psycho-geography: Tom 
Vague's Musical Mapping of Notting Hill Alex Lawrey 15. Unveiling 
Memory: Blue Plaques as (In)tangible Markers of Popular Music Heritage 
Les Roberts and Sara Cohen 16. Why I Didn’t 'Go Down to the Delta': The 
Cultural Politics of Blues Tourism Mark Duffett



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