ABSTRACT
Sites of Popular Music Heritage examines the location of memories and histories of popular music and its multiple pasts. The book developed out of a symposium organised by the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool, the aim of which was to explore the places and spaces where people encounter and engage with popular music histories and legacies. The event attracted academics and practitioners who were interested in the study of popular music heritage and the different and new perspectives and approaches that this might involve. As with the topic of popular music heritage itself, those attending the symposium were representative of a range of disciplines (including musicology, geography, museum studies, cultural sociology) and fields of practice (including museums and archives and music and tourism industries). While ideas of heritage, memory and nostalgia play an increasingly important role in popular music historiography, the spatial and geographic frameworks underpinning the production of popular music histories have until now remained comparatively underexamined.
