Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City

This Element offers tools for more culturally just heritage futures, drawing on popular music heritage from deindustrialising cities.

Sarah Baker (Author), Zelmarie Cantillon (Author), Raphaël Nowak (Author)

9781009066204, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 March 2023

75 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.138 kg

The celebration of popular music can be an important mode of cultural expression and a source of pride for urban communities. This Element analyses the capacity for popular music heritage to enact cultural justice in the deindustrialising cities of Wollongong, Australia; Detroit, USA; and Birmingham, UK. The Element develops a critical approach to cultural justice for examining music and the city in a heritage context and outlines how the quest for cultural justice manifests in three key ways: collection, preservation and archiving; curation, storytelling and heritage interpretation; and mobilising communities for collective action.

1. Introduction
2. Collection, preservation and archiving
3. Curation, storytelling and heritage interpretation
4. Mobilising communities for collective action
5. Conclusion: a critical approach to cultural justice
References.

Subject Areas: Music [AV]