Catherine Strong, Barbara Lebrun

Death and the Rock Star (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection explores the reception of dead rock stars, 'rock' being taken in the widest sense. When music artists die, their fellow musicians, producers, fans and the media react differently, and this book brings together their intertwining modalities of reception. The commercial impact of death on record sales, copyrights, and print media is considered, and the different justifications by living artists for being involved with the dead, through covers, sampling and tributes. The cultural representation of dead singers is investigated through obituaries, biographies and biopics. The book discusses the gendering of death and posthumous prestige, and the enduring appeal of the notion of 'tragedy' in popular music culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317154518
• Artikelnr.: 44865329

Autorenporträt

Catherine Strong lectures in the Music Industry Program at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Grunge: Music and Memory (Ashgate, 2011), and Chair of IASPM Australia-New Zealand branch. Her research focuses on memory, heritage and gender in relation to popular music. Barbara Lebrun is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Her first book, Protest Music in France (Ashgate, 2009), won the 2011 IASPM prize for Best Anglophone Monograph, and she is the editor of Chanson et Performance (2012).