Aging and Popular Music in Europe

Name: Aging and Popular Music in Europe
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Opening up the dialogue between popular music studies and aging studies, this book offers a major exploration of age and popular music across Europe. Using a variety of methods to illustrate how age within popular music is contingent and compelling, the volume explores how it provokes curation and devotion across a variety of sites and artists who record in several European languages, and genres including waltz music, electronica, pop, folk, rap, and the French \u2018chanson.\u2019 Visiting the many ways in which age is problematized, revered, and performed within Europe in relation to popular music, case studies analyze: French touring shows of popular music stars from the 1960s; Andr\u00E9 Rieu\u2019s annual Vrijthof concerts in the Netherlands; Kraftwerk and Bj\u00F6rk\u2019s appearances at renowned art museums as curated objects; queer approaches to popular music space and time; British folk music inheritances; pan-European strategies of stardom and career longevity; and inherita.