
Photography, Music and Memory
Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 12. October 2015
Book
Hardback
X, 211 pages
978-1-137-44120-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
X, 211 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-44120-1 (9781137441201)
DOI
10.1057/9781137441218
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions

Michael Pickering | Emily Keightley
Photography, Music and Memory
Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life
E-Book
10/2015
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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Emily Keightley | Michael Pickering
Photography, Music and Memory
Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life
Book
01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€90.94
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Persons
Michael Pickering is Emeritus Professor in the Social Sciences department at Loughborough University, UK. He has published in the areas of media and cultural history, sociology of culture, music studies and memory studies.
Emily Keightley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests include the mediation of memory, time and everyday life. She has published on topics which include everyday memory, mediated mobility, memory and methodology, generational transmission and painful pasts.
Emily Keightley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests include the mediation of memory, time and everyday life. She has published on topics which include everyday memory, mediated mobility, memory and methodology, generational transmission and painful pasts.
Content
Introduction 1. Media and Memory 2. Resources for Remembering 3. Purpose and Meaning 4. Value and Significance Pieces of the Past