Music, Memory and Memoir
Published on 27. June 2019
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-5013-4064-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Skilfully fuses the several storytelling perspectives that emerge within the featured memoirs ... The collection quite ably underlines why our music experiences shape our identities, which is a process that is both accentuated and problematised by music memoirs, thus necessitating the incisive analysis that emerges here. * Popular Music * Whether you are a fan of Patti Smith, enjoy reading memoirs or you just miss shopping in record stores, the mix of cultural history, memoir criticism and personal reflections in Music, Memory and Memoir explain why music is still so important to so many of us, and how its stories connect to our own. * Julie Rak, Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada, and author of Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (2013) * Music, Memory and Memoir is a collection of invaluable reckonings with the nexus between fandom and intellectual retrospection. It brings much-needed attention to the form of the music memoir and how it shapes our personal and historical narratives of why this music matters. There are so few books that approach these issues with such great breadth and passion that I could easily envision fashioning a course out of its crucial insights. * Erich Hertz, Professor of English and Film Studies, Siena College, USA, and co-editor of Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2014) * 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. * Kirsty Fairclough, Director of International and Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, UK *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
532 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-4064-2 (9781501340642)
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Additional editions
Robert Edgar | Fraser Mann | Helen Pleasance
Music, Memory and Memoir
E-Book
06/2019
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic USA
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Persons
Robert Edgar is Associate Professor in the York Centre for Writing at York St. John University, UK. His publications include Screenwriting (2009), The Language of Film (2015), The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop (co-editor, 2013) and The Arena Concert (co-editor, 2015).
Fraser Mann is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St. John University, UK. He is a specialist in war literature and memoir with particular interests in testimony, gender and trauma.
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, true crime and hybrid forms.
Fraser Mann is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St. John University, UK. He is a specialist in war literature and memoir with particular interests in testimony, gender and trauma.
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, true crime and hybrid forms.
Content
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 Wolverhampton, UK
8. Reading Lyrics, Hearing Prose: Morrissey's Autobiography
Laura Watson, University of Maynooth, Ireland
9. 'Glory Days': Memory-Related Processes and the Performance of Memory in the Work of Bruce Springsteen
Nicola Spelman, University of Salford, UK
Part Two: Recollections
10. Time Machines
Barbara Frost, Independent Scholar, UK
11. Meeting Your Idols 1: Growing Up Addicted in York
Karen Woodall, Independent Scholar, UK
12. Meeting Your Idols 2: Teenage Dreams
Steve Leedale, Independent Scholar, UK
13. Meeting your Idols 3: The Soldier in the Box
Kate Ramsay, Independent Scholar, UK
14. Meeting your Idols 4: Culture Clash
Peter Cook, Independent Scholar, UK
15. Meeting Your Idols 5: Goodbye Tupac
Jerry Ibbotson, Independent Scholar, UK
16. "What do I do now?": Encountering Ourselves in Music Memoirs
Jon Stewart, BIMM, UK, Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Louise Wener, Musician
17. The Sacred Scrolls of Pop
Henry Priestman, Independent Artist, UK
18. Exploding the Myth
Tom Hingley, Independent Artist, UK
19. Remembrance Sunday
Bill Drummond, Independent Artist, UK
20. Confessions of Metal and Folk: Remembering and Contextualizing the Creative Process
Kimi Karki, University of Turku, Finland
Notes on Contributors
References
Index
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 Wolverhampton, UK
8. Reading Lyrics, Hearing Prose: Morrissey's Autobiography
Laura Watson, University of Maynooth, Ireland
9. 'Glory Days': Memory-Related Processes and the Performance of Memory in the Work of Bruce Springsteen
Nicola Spelman, University of Salford, UK
Part Two: Recollections
10. Time Machines
Barbara Frost, Independent Scholar, UK
11. Meeting Your Idols 1: Growing Up Addicted in York
Karen Woodall, Independent Scholar, UK
12. Meeting Your Idols 2: Teenage Dreams
Steve Leedale, Independent Scholar, UK
13. Meeting your Idols 3: The Soldier in the Box
Kate Ramsay, Independent Scholar, UK
14. Meeting your Idols 4: Culture Clash
Peter Cook, Independent Scholar, UK
15. Meeting Your Idols 5: Goodbye Tupac
Jerry Ibbotson, Independent Scholar, UK
16. "What do I do now?": Encountering Ourselves in Music Memoirs
Jon Stewart, BIMM, UK, Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Louise Wener, Musician
17. The Sacred Scrolls of Pop
Henry Priestman, Independent Artist, UK
18. Exploding the Myth
Tom Hingley, Independent Artist, UK
19. Remembrance Sunday
Bill Drummond, Independent Artist, UK
20. Confessions of Metal and Folk: Remembering and Contextualizing the Creative Process
Kimi Karki, University of Turku, Finland
Notes on Contributors
References
Index