TY - JOUR
KW - cultural heritage
KW - Heritagisation
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Memory
KW - Nostalgia
KW - popular music
KW - Praxis
AU - Les Roberts
AB - Raymond Williams once remarked that Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language (1983). He never said what the other ones were but had he been writing today, one of these might well have been heritage. Indeed, the imbrications of culture and heritage, and the vexed nature of their relationship, particularly with regard to popular music, are such that each has come to serve as a synonym for the other in the wider sociocultural imaginary. This paper casts a critical spotlight on discourses of cultural heritage in the UK by questioning what makes popular music culture heritage and considering the extent to which the UK popular music has become increasingly heritagised. Relating the specific example of popular music to wider debates on cultural heritage and heritagisation, the paper calls for greater problematising of discourses of popular music as cultural heritage, and considers, by way of conclusion, how a critical focus on the lived, performative and hauntological dynamics of music heritage practices can illuminate understandings of the way cultures of music and memory are negotiated and transacted in the present.
DO - 10.1080/13527258.2012.740497
M1 - 3
N1 - Publisher: Routledge
N2 - Raymond Williams once remarked that Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language (1983). He never said what the other ones were but had he been writing today, one of these might well have been heritage. Indeed, the imbrications of culture and heritage, and the vexed nature of their relationship, particularly with regard to popular music, are such that each has come to serve as a synonym for the other in the wider sociocultural imaginary. This paper casts a critical spotlight on discourses of cultural heritage in the UK by questioning what makes popular music culture heritage and considering the extent to which the UK popular music has become increasingly heritagised. Relating the specific example of popular music to wider debates on cultural heritage and heritagisation, the paper calls for greater problematising of discourses of popular music as cultural heritage, and considers, by way of conclusion, how a critical focus on the lived, performative and hauntological dynamics of music heritage practices can illuminate understandings of the way cultures of music and memory are negotiated and transacted in the present.
SP - 262
EP - 280
TI - Talkin bout my generation: popular music and the culture of heritage
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VL - 20
SN - 13527258 (ISSN)
ER -