by Les Roberts
First published 2014
This collection investigates where popular music histories take root and flourish. Roberts brings together researchers from archive studies, cultural geography, sociology, and museum studies to examine the physical and digital spaces that house musical memory. The contributors analyze local venues, museum storage rooms, exhibition halls, and internet archives as sites where musical heritage gets preserved and presented. They explore how these locations shape our connections to music's past and influence collective cultural memory. The book argues that popular music studies has focused on memory processes and identity formation but neglected the actual places where these encounters happen. Through extensive fieldwork and practice-based insights from heritage professionals, the volume reveals how different spaces function in creating popular music heritage. This interdisciplinary approach offers new ways to understand the relationship between place and musical memory.
Genres: history, sociology, non-fiction, music, academic, cultural-studies
Vibes: interdisciplinary, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: interdisciplinary-approach, practice-based-insights
Setting: Africa, America, Europe
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
274 pages · ebook · Routledge