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.

1. Introduction: Why popular music ‘heritage’ – and why now?.- 2. Music, heritage and the cultural consecration of place.- 3. Museums, music halls of fame and fan conventions.- 4. Memorabilia, collectibles and enshrinement.- 5. Heritage media and ‘classic’ re-presentation.- 6. Heritage discourse and the internet.- 7. Tribute bands, self tribute and ‘Classic Albums Live’.

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 crucialreading for established scholars as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students studying popular music heritage.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).

“A timely book from one of popular music’s foremost scholars, addressing the reality that popular music now has a weighty past, a heritage. Taking us through a broad range of different aspects this book is a must, not only for those interested in popular music but also tourism, place-making, urban regeneration and the creative city.” (Justin O’Connor, Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia, Australia)“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)

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