Musician in the museum : display and power in neoliberal popular culture / Charles Fairchild.

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"An examination of the popular music museum and its relationship to commercialism and neoliberalism"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fairchild, Charles, 1967- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2021.
Subjects:
Popular music > Museums > Social aspects.
Physical Description:viii, 255 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The place we’ve ended up
  • The democratic [sic] vistas of popular culture
  • Neoliberalism’s firmaments of fame
  • Caught between the spectacular and the vernacular
  • Ideal musical objects
  • Popular music museums and the experience economy
  • Preferred itineraries of sight, sound and feeling
  • Fetish, effigy and the resonant object
  • Ideal musical subjects
  • The emergence and evolution of the rock imaginary
  • Portraiture and the currency of musical repute
  • Displaying ‘the popular’.