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Zusatztext Troubling Inheritances uses a shared and sharing methodology to collect a fascinating collection of stories that songs have allowed or encouraged people to tell. Through an impressively wide range of international case studies, this collection highlights the centrality of music to our everyday experience as well as the ways we understand and narrate our lives. It also centres the role of those who came before us and those who will follow us, making rich connections between music, memory, mentorship, solidarity and inter-generational influence. These intimate, moving and memorable essays remind us of the things music reveals to us about ourselves and others. Informationen zum Autor Sara Cohen is James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music and Director of the Institute of Popular Music at Liverpool University, UK. She has a DPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University and is author of Rock Culture in Liverpool (1991) and Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture (2007), co-author of Harmonious Relations (1994) and Liverpool's Musical Landscapes (2018), and co-editor of Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014). She has specialised in interdisciplinary research on popular music, with a particular interest in ethnographic approaches and research on place, heritage, memory and ageing. Line Grenie r is Professor at the Département de communication at Université de Montréal in Montréal, Québec, Canada, where she teaches predominantly in the areas of media theory, memory and media, and popular culture. Her work on the history and politics of local music and music industries, the Céline Dion phenomenon and the figures of fame it embodies, as well as the business and politics of live music, has been published in several journals, including Popular Music, Cultural Studies, Recherches féministes, Ethnomusicology, Recherches sociographiques, and Musicultures. More recently, in the context of the research partnership ACT (Ageing Communication Technology) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and of which she is one of the cofounders, her research focuses on intersections of ageing and music. Her current project focuses on Deaf cultures of ageing, and deaf musics. Ros Jennings is Professor is Ageing, Culture and Media, working as a researcher in ageing, identities and autoethnographic methods and as a research mentor and researcher developer in the School of Health, The Business School and the School of Creatives at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Klappentext This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to age as decline. It contributes to the development of qualitative research methodologies by utilizing and reflecting on methods for studying music, memory, and ageing across diverse and interconnected contexts. Using the notion of inheritance to trouble its core themes of music, memory, ageing, and methodology, it examines different ways in which the concept of inheritance is understood but also how it commonly refers to the practice of passing on, and the connections this establishes across time and space. It confronts the ageist discourses that associate popular music predominantly with youth and that focus narrowly, and almost exclusively, on music's therapeutic function for older adults. By presenting research which examines various intersections of music and ageing outside of a therapeutic context or framework, the book brings a much-needed intervention. Vorwort Explores the relationship between music, memory, and ageing through a focus on "inheritance tracks," with contributions from leading scholars of popular music studies. Zusammenfassung This book provides an interdisciplinary focus o...
