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.
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.
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
Index
Explores the relationship between music, memory, and ageing through a focus on "inheritance tracks," with contributions from leading scholars of popular music studies.
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.
Troubling Inheritances uses a shared and sharing methodology to
collect a fascinating collection of stories that songs have allowed
or encouraged people to tell. Through an impressively wide range of
international case studies, this collection highlights the
centrality of music to our everyday experience as well as the ways
we understand and narrate our lives. It also centres the role of
those who came before us and those who will follow us, making rich
connections between music, memory, mentorship, solidarity and
inter-generational influence. These intimate, moving and memorable
essays remind us of the things music reveals to us about ourselves
and others.
*Richard Elliott, Senior Lecturer in Music, Newcastle University,
UK, and author of The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in
Popular Music*
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