Recorded Time Listening Again to Popular Music History
Issue: Vol 12 No. 3 (2019) Special Issue: Listening again to popular music as history (Part 2)
Journal: Popular Music History
Subject Areas: Popular Music
DOI: 10.1558/pomh.42063
Abstract:
This article explores how the possibilities of historical thinking are particularly unimpeded across a wealth of practices circulated around and in popular music. These possibilities are expressed in and about the creative form, mediation, reception and preservation of popular music to the degree that one might speak of a rhetorical imaginary or poetics of history. Extending beyond disciplinary horizons and expectations, this poetics is productive for listening again to and with popular music as historical source and as a conduit to a broader understanding of the past. This poetics is of particular interest in light of what the article identifies as a broad 'historical turn' in popular music which demands reflection. In response, the article seeks to explore the way in which recordings work as source, in, of and from history to prompt discussion around the historiographical consciousness of popular music studies. It does this by using encounters with a recording of 'Some of These Days' in Sartre's novel Nausea as an illustration of the long- established nature of the poetics discussed in the context of new questions presented by the contemmporary 'turn'.
Author: Paul Leslie Long
References :
Akerm, P. (2018) ‘Spotify as the soundtrack to your life: Encountering music in the customized archive’. In Johansson, S. et al., 2018. Streaming music: practices, media, cultures, Routledge.
Ashby, A.M., 2010. Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction. Berkley: Univ of California Press.
Baker, S. ed., 2015. Preserving popular music heritage: do-it-yourself, do-it-together. Routledge.
Baker, S., Strong, C., Istvandity, L. and Cantillon, Z. eds., 2018. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage. Routledge
Barber, S., 2018. My Jazz World: The Rise and Fall of a Digital Utopia. In The
Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies, ed. Nicholas Gebhardt, Nichole Rustin-Paschal and Tony Whyton, PPP New York: Routledge
Barfe, L., 2013. Where Have All the Good Times Gone?. London: Atlantic Books Ltd.
Bennett, A., 2009. “Heritage rock”: Rock music, representation and heritage discourse. Poetics, 37(5-6), pp.474-489
Bonds, Mark Evan Bond (2014). Absolute Music: The History of an Idea. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Clark, A., Berger, S., Hughes-Warrington, M. and Macintyre, S., 2018. What is history? Historiography roundtable. Rethinking History, 22(4), pp.500-524.
Cottrell, S.J., 2010. The rise and rise of phonomusicology. in Recorded Music: Performance, Culture and Technology.. Cambridge.
Covach, John (2020). ‘Rock Historiography: Music, Artists, Perspectives and Value’ in EditorsAllan Moore & Paul Carr The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research. London & New York: Bloomsbury.
Day, T., 2002. A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History. Yale University Press.
Drott, E., 2019. Music in the Work of Social Reproduction. Public Culture, 15(2), pp.162-183.
Fremaux, S., 2015. Coming together: DIY heritage and the Beatles. In Preserving Popular Music Heritage (pp. 139-150). Routledge
Goodall, Howard. 2018. ‘He’s one of the greatest melodists who ever lived’, Mojo, No. 299, October, p. 77.
Hennion, A., 2001. Music lovers: Taste as performance. Theory, Culture & Society, 18(5), pp.1-22.
Ingham, Tim. 2019. ‘Nearly 40,000 tracks are now being added to Spotify every single day’, Music Business Worldwide. April 29. ((https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/nearly-40000-tracks-are-now-being-added-to-spotify-every-single-day/)<Accessed 1 April 2020>.
Ketelaar, E., 2017. ‘Archival turns and returns’. In J Gilliland, A., McKemmish, S. M., & Lau, A. J. (eds)7). Research in the Archival Multiverse. Clayton Victoria AUS: Monash University Publishing. pp. 228-268
Leaver, D. and Schmidt, R.A., 2009. Before they were famous: music-based tourism and a musician's hometown roots. Journal of Place Management and Development, 2(3), pp.220-229.
Long, P. and Collins, J., 2016. Affective memories of music in online heritage practice. Music, Memory and Space, pp.85-101.
Meyers, J.P., 2015. Still like that old time rock and roll: Tribute bands and historical consciousness in popular music. Ethnomusicology, 59(1), pp.61-81.
Millward, J.A., 2018. The Silk Road and the Sitar: Finding Centuries of Sociocultural Exchange in the History of an Instrument. Journal of Social History, 52(2), pp.206-233.
Petrusich, A., 2015. Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records. Simon and Schuster.
Prey, R., 2016. Musica analytica: The datafication of listening. In Nowak, R. and Whelan, A. eds., 2016. Networked Music Cultures: Contemporary Approaches, Emerging Issues. (pp. 31-48). London: Palgrave Macmillan, .
Quignard, P., 2016. The Hatred of Music. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Rogers, Jude. 2015. ‘Interview. Shirley Collins: ‘When I sing I feel past generations standing behind me’, Guardian.Online. 31 May <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/31/shirley-collins-sing-past-generations-standing-folk-music> [Accessed 1 8 2020]
Rogers, Jude. 2019. ‘When song lyrics become literature’. New Statesman. 2 January. Online at <https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/01/literature-lyrics-0> [Accessed 1 8 2020]
Rosenstone, R.A., 2004. ‘Introduction: Practice and Theory’ in Munslow, A. and Rosenstone, R.A. eds., 2004. Experiments in rethinking history. New York and Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 1-6.
Roy, E.A., 2016. Media, materiality and memory: grounding the groove. Routledge.
Santoro, Gene. 1997. Stir It Up: Musical Mixes from Roots to Jazz. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Sartre, J.P., 1947. I discovered jazz in America. Saturday Review of Literature, 29, pp.48-49.
Suisman, D., 2018. Afterword: Music, Sound, History. Journal of Social History, 52(2), pp.383-389.
Tamm, M. and Olivier, L. eds., 2019. Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Tanaka, S., 2016. History without chronology. Public Culture, 28(1 (78)), pp.161-186.).
Treitler, L., 1989. Music and the Historical Imagination. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press.
Weber, E.T., 2016. The Beatles and the Historians: An Analysis of Writings about the Fab Four. McFarland.