Troubling Inheritances

Memory, Music, and Aging

Sara Cohen, Professor or Dr. Line Grenier, Professor or Dr. Ros Jennings (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-6954-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Sara Cohen is Professor at the University of Liverpool, UK, where she holds the James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music and is Director of the Institute of Popular Music. She is author of Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture (2007) and Rock Culture in Liverpool (1991), co-author of Liverpool’s Musical Landscapes (2018) and Harmonious Relations (1994), and co-editor of Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014). Line Grenier is Associate Professor at the Département de Communication at Université de Montréal, Canada, where she teaches predominantly in the areas of media theory, memory and media, and popular culture. 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 co-founders, 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 in Cultural Studies, Director of the Centre for Women Ageing and Media (WAM) and Head of Postgraduate Research at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She is a founding member of the European Network in Ageing Studies (ENAS), author of the WAM Manifesto (2012), and contributor to the UK Charter against Ageism and Sexism in the Media. She is co-editor with Abigail Gardner of Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (2012) and leader of the annual WAM International Summer School.

Introduction
Line Grenier, University of Montréal, Canada, Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool, UK, and Ros Jennings, University of Gloucestershire, UK

1. Reflections on Women and Musical Inheritances: Exploring the Musical Threads of Memory and Emotion
Ros Jennings, University of Gloucestershire, UK

2. Inheritance Tracks, Shared Memories, and Collective Self-TherapyAndy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia

3. Bordering Musical Inheritances
Helmi Järviluoma, Elina Hytönen-Ng, and Sonja Pöllänen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

4. Storytelling and Disrupting Borders: A Sicilian Workshop
Abigail Gardner, University of Gloucestershire, UK

5. Songs That Matter: Assessing through Trinidadian Storytellings the Power of Music, Memory, Age and Aging
Jocelyne Guilbault, University of California, Berkeley, USA

6. Collective Music Listening, Reminiscence, and the Tensions of Ageing: Lessons from two Workshops with Older Adults in Liverpool
Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool, UK, Lisa Shaw, University of Liverpool, UK, and Jacqueline Waldock, University of Liverpool, UK

7. Journeys of Attachments, Trajectories of (Mis)fitting: Musicking in Deaf Communities in Montreal
Line Grenier, University of Montréal, Canada, and Véro Leduc, University of Montréal, Canada

8. Sharing and Reflecting on Inheritance Tracks: Some Afterthoughts
Murray Forman, Northeastern University, USA

Notes on Contributors
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Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2022
Zusatzinfo	16 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
ISBN-10	1-5013-6954-7 / 1501369547
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-6954-4 / 9781501369544
Zustand	Neuware