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Zusatztext Music, Memory and Memoir panoramically explores the phenomenon of the music memoir, a much-overlooked area of contemporary popular music studies. The book deftly weaves analysis of music, written memoir and memory together to define models that underpin the ways in which music and memory are so closely linked. The way that artists, writers and indeed all of us construct our past through fragments of musical experience is so keenly expressed here, it is a brilliantly incisive collection that prompts both curiosity and deep reflection. Informationen zum Autor Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University, UK. He has published on Screenwriting (2009), Directing Fiction (2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury, 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury, 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019), Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Venue Stories (2023). He is co-editing the forthcoming Bloomsbury publication, Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Fiction . Fraser Mann is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St. John University, UK. He is a specialist in war literature with particular interests in testimony, gender and trauma. He has published research on a range of literary figures such as Ernest Hemingway, James Jones, Norman Mailer, Tim O’Brien and Kurt Vonnegut. His teaching interests include American Studies, autobiography and twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing. Helen Pleasance is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at York St. John University, UK. Her research interests include Contemporary Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction in all its forms, especially memoir, biography and true crime. She has published on the memoir form and narrative constructions of the Moors murders, as well as writing fiction and creative nonfiction. She is currently researching how domestic needlecraft shaped women’s lives in the twentieth century. Vorwort Engages with the contemporary phenomenon of the music memoir and interrogates the function of music in shaping personal and cultural memory. Zusammenfassung Music, Memory and Memoir provides a unique look at the contemporary cultural phenomenon of the music memoir and, leading from this, the way that music is used to construct memory. Via analyses of memoirs that consider punk and pop, indie and dance, this text examines the nature of memory for musicians and the function of music in creating personal and cultural narratives. This book includes innovative and multidisciplinary approaches from a range of contributors consisting of academics, critics and musicians, evaluating this phenomenon from multiple academic and creative practices, and examines the contemporary music memoir in its cultural and literary contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Robert Edgar, Fraser Mann and Helen Pleasance Part One: Readings 1. Hiatus: Music, Memory and Liminal Authenticity Robert Edgar, York St John University, UK 2. Paying More Close Anxious Attention to Joy Division Helen Pleasance, York St John University, UK 3. Portrait of the Artist as an Indie Star: Kristin Hersh and the Memoir of Process Fraser Mann, York St John University, UK 4. Poet Is Priest: Julian H Cope’s Subversive Biography Nathan Wiseman-Trowse, University of Northampton, UK 5. Grace Jones: Cyborg Memoirist Janine Bradbury, York St John University, UK 6. “Walking the Dead”: Memory and Self-Reflexive Intertextuality in Late-Style David Bowie Kevin Holm-Hudson, University of Kentucky, USA 7. Memory, Graffiti and The Libertines: A Walk Down “Up the Bracket Alley” Ben Halligan, University of Wolverhamp...
