Popular Music, Cultural Memory, and Heritage

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He has authored and edited over 20 books including Popular Music and Youth Culture, Music, Style and Aging and Music Scenes (with Richard A. Peterson).Susanne Janssen is Professor of Sociology of Media and Culture in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam the Erasmus Research Centre in Media, Communication and Culture, The Netherlands. She has published widely on the agents and institutions involved in the creation, dissemination and valuation of literature and other art forms.

• 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