Les Roberts

Sara Cohen

Robert Knifton

Marion Leonard

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 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. Bringing together recent research based on extensive fieldwork from scholars of popular music studies, cultural sociology, and museum studies, alongside the new insights of practice-based considerations of current practitioners within the field of popular music heritage, this is the first collection to address the interdisciplinary interest in situating popular music histories, heritages, and pasts. The book will therefore appeal to a wide and growing academic readership focused on issues of heritage, cultural memory, and popular music, and provide a timely intervention in a field of study that is engaging scholars from across a broad spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical perspectives.

Memories, Histories, Places

Sites of Popular Music Heritage

La adolescencia es un momento de exposición a circunstancias inéditas, experiencias inaugurales y desafíos en el que la subversión del statu quo se vuelve central. Es bueno que así sea, siempre y cuando ese tránsito sea creativo y no mortífero para el sujeto en cuestión. Cuándo y cómo intervenir desde la clínica analítica es lo que plantea esta obra, combinando el abordaje de textos literarios con el relato de viñetas clínicas, casos reales enfrentados por la autora en su práctica cotidiana. Actualmente, son frecuentes las consultas por trastornos de conducta alimentaria, consumo problemático de sustancias o conductas autolesivas, todas situaciones que requieren la atención de profesionales de distintas disciplinas con urgencia.Sin perder de vista los pilares teóricos freudianos, Sara Cohen, psicoanalista y psiquiatra infantojuvenil de larga trayectoria, pone de manifiesto la necesidad de actualizar los abordajes, aunque no se trate necesariamente de patologías nuevas, al mismo tiempo que aboga por no patologizar las conductas adolescentes sin estudiar sus estrechos vínculos con el entorno y la singularidad de cada caso. Morir joven invita a indagar en un puñado de vidas en conflicto, con el objetivo de favorecer una toma de decisiones apropiadas en la encrucijada que reúne al joven y su entorno familiar y social, de forma de generar un sostén sólido que evite que las tensiones se transformen en explosivas. Esto es parte fundamental del trabajo clínico y de una adecuada intervención terapéutica. Escuchar al joven e interrogar sus crisis, pone en movimiento a todo su entorno. Lo que auspicia una mejor evolución y un mejor tránsito hacia la adultez.

clínica con adolescentes

Morir joven

How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, how did they come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city, and how have connections between the Beatles and Liverpool been forged and contested? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. Firstly, it examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s. Secondly, and in turn, it considers the specificity of popular music culture and the many diverse ways in which it influences city life and informs the way that the city is thought about, valued and experienced. Cohen highlights popular music's unique role and significance in the making of cities, and illustrates how de-industrialization encouraged efforts to connect popular music to the city, to categorize, claim and promote it as local culture, and harness and mobilize it as a local resource. In doing so, she adopts an approach that recognizes music as a social and symbolic practice encompassing a diversity of roles and characteristics: music as a culture or way of life distinguished by social and ideological conventions; music as sound; speech and discourse about music; and music as a commodity and industry.

Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles

Pessoa, Pizarnik, Celan, Michaux

El silencio de los poetas

How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, how did they come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city, and how have connections between the Beatles and Liverpool been forged and contested? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. Firstly, it examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s. Secondly, and in turn, it considers the specificity of popular music culture and the many diverse ways in which it influences city life and informs the way that the city is thought about, valued and experienced. Cohen highlights popular music's unique role and significance in the making of cities, and illustrates how de-industrialization encouraged efforts to connect popular music to the city, to categorize, claim and promote it as local culture, and harness and mobilize it as a local resource. In doing so she adopts an approach that recognizes music as a social and symbolic practice encompassing a diversity of roles and characteristics: music as a culture or way of life distinguished by social and ideological conventions; music as sound; speech and discourse about music; and music as a commodity and industry.

Sara Cohen

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