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Death and the rock star / edited by Catherine Strong and Barbara Lebrun.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3916 .D43 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ashgate popular and folk music series
- [Ashgate popular and folk music series]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicians--Death--Social aspects.
- Musicians.
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- Popular music.
- Bereavement--Social aspects.
- Bereavement.
- Death.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
- Contents:
- The great gig in the sky : exploring popular music and death / Barbara Lebrun and Catherine Strong
- Death and taboo. The afterlife of the people's singer : bodily matters in a Dutch sing-along culture / Irene Stengs ; I don't preach premature suicide : the biopolitics of GG Allin / Ben Dumbauld ; Difference that exceeded understanding : remembering Michael Jackson (redux) / Susan Fast
- Mediating the dead. Mediation, generational memory and the dead music icon / Andy Bennett ; From death to birth : suicide and stardom in the musical biopic / Penny Spirou ; Social sorrow : tweeting the mourning of Whitney Houston / Taylor Cole Miller
- The labouring dead. Laneways of the dead : memorialising musicians in Melbourne / Catherine Strong ; Three faces of musical motherhood in death : Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston and Donna Summer / Paula Hearsum ; Enshrined : ushering Fela Kuti into the Western rock canon / Abigail Gardner ; Post-mortem Elvis : from cultural icon to transproperty / June M. Madeley and Daniel Downes
- Resurrections. Performing beyond the grave : the posthumous duet / Shelley Brunt ; There's a spectre haunting hip-hop : Tupac Shakur, holograms in concert and the future of live performance / Gina Arnold ; Post-mortem sampling in hip-hop recordings and the rap lament / Justin A. Williams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Mina Wattenberg, C '94 & Gregg Wattenberg Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1472430913
- 9781472430915
- OCLC:
- 905759340
- Publisher Number:
- 99965664574
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