Listening again to popular music as history

Authors

  • Paul Leslie Long Monash University Author
  • Nicholas Gebhardt Birmingham City University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.41400

Keywords:

Popular music history, historiography

Abstract

This guest editorial introduces four articles in the first of two special editions reflecting on the nature of our thinking and methods as scholars of popular music history. While many of us draw on an inter-disciplinary range of skills and repertories, what is it we think we are doing in producing our accounts of the past in and through music? What is at stake in our discussions and wider claims for the value of what we do?

Author Biographies

  • Paul Leslie Long, Monash University

    Paul Long is Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries, Communications and Media Studies at Monash University. He has written extensively on popular music history, heritage and archives in which a core theme of cultural justice informs much of this work. With Phil Jones and Beth Perry, he has recently published Cultural Intermediaries Connecting Communities: Revisiting Approaches to Cultural Engagement (Policy Press, 2019).

  • Nicholas Gebhardt, Birmingham City University

    Nicholas Gebhardt is Professor of Popular Music and Jazz Studies and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research.

References

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Baker, S., C. Strong, L. Istvandity and Z. Cantillon, eds. 2018. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315299310

Bennett, A., and S. Janssen, eds. 2019. Popular Music, Cultural Memory, and Heritage. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315204109

Jackson, J. H., and S. C. Pelkey, eds. 2005. Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi.

Karush, M. B. 2018. ‘Editor’s Note: Music Histories’. Journal of Social History 52/2: 205. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shy056

Leonard, M., and R. Knifton. 2017. ‘A Critical Survey of Museum Collections of Popular Music in the United Kingdom’. Popular Music History 10/2: 171–91. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.33288

Long, P. 2015. ‘“Really Saying Something?” What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Popular Music Heritage, Memory, Archives and the Digital?’ In Preserving Popular Music Heritage, ed. Sarah Baker, 62–76. New York and Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315769882-5

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Published

2020-08-21

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2019): Special Issue: Listening Again to Popular Music as History (Part 1)

Section

Introduction

License

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How to Cite

Long, P. L., & Gebhardt, N. (2020). Listening again to popular music as history. Popular Music History, 12(2), 147–151. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.41400