IASPM JournalPub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.5429/2079.387(2025)v15i1.2en
J. Cale Johnson
{"title":"Exploring legacy and narrative in star performer popular music exhibitions: The Design Museums’ Amy: Beyond the Stage","authors":"J. Cale Johnson","doi":"10.5429/2079.387(2025)v15i1.2en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079.387(2025)v15i1.2en","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have seen a range of star performer popular music exhibitions about individual musicians or bands in British museums. This article offers a view on how these exhibitions can shape historic narratives about their subjects, influencing their legacies. Drawing on gallery observations and materials collected during multiple site visits, the article presents an analysis of Amy: Beyond the Stage at the Design Museum in London, illustrating some of the challenges faced by contemporary curators when structuring narratives and exhibiting performer legacies in popular music exhibitions, contributing to the increasing body of academic literature designed to critically evaluate practices of curation in popular music museums and exhibitions. By focusing on three themes: single narrative curation, nostalgia and empathy, and canonisation, it argues that, to preserve the public legacies of their subjects, star performer exhibitions sometimes misrepresent or re-write historic events, which can lead to the whitewashing of history.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"6-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/download/1391/2051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147896923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.14en
Victor Pires
{"title":"Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public.Transportation in Brazil (1996-2011)","authors":"Victor Pires","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.14en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.14en","url":null,"abstract":"In “A Urgência” (“The Urgency”)","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"270 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140233519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.16en
Susan O'Shea, Tore Størvold
{"title":"On Dissonant Landscapes: Tore Størvold and Susan O’Shea, in conversation","authors":"Susan O'Shea, Tore Størvold","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.16en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.16en","url":null,"abstract":"An interview with Susan O'Shea and Tore Størvold to discuss the recently published book, Dissonant Landscapes: Music, Nature and The Performance of Iceland.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"86 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140232467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.3en
Simone Driessen, Veerle Van Mil
{"title":"Best Song ever - forever?","authors":"Simone Driessen, Veerle Van Mil","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.3en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.3en","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores how aging One Direction and Taylor Swift fans continue their fandom in(to) adulthood. Drawing on interviews with 23 female fans, this article examines what happens if one actively pursues fandom after youth. Despite having multiple solo-careers to keep track of, or adjusting to new (Swift-)‘eras’, ‘aging pop fandom’ seems to go beyond the music: Results demonstrate that these young aging fans consider themselves ‘life-long fans’, having been fans for such a long time. Additionally, their current fandom is about friendships and belonging to a community (particularly prevalent during the pandemic) and illustrative of how they as young fans developed (media) skills vital to one’s current career. What this study reveals is that whether it’s through (re-)listening to music, attending concerts or themed club-nights, pop music fandom forms a soundtrack to their process of aging.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"289 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140233324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.10en
Marco Biasioli
{"title":"Molchat Doma and the Birth of the Influencer","authors":"Marco Biasioli","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.10en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.10en","url":null,"abstract":"The article investigates the transnational reception, circulation and remediation of music on TikTok, taking as a case study the Belarusian band Molchat Doma (The Houses Are Silent), whose song ‘Sudno’ became viral in 2020 in conjunction with the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The article argues that: a) TikTok users generally disregard the author’s encoded meaning for their own self-expression; b) depoliticize and memeify Molchat doma’s gloomy post-punk; c) prompt self-memeification in the author, who becomes an active participant in the textual rewriting. The article aims to contribute to ongoing debates around the digital consumption of popular music.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"52 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140233849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.8en
Faye Rigopoulou
{"title":"Still Here? Aging Female Vocalities in Musical Theatre.","authors":"Faye Rigopoulou","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.8en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.8en","url":null,"abstract":"Musical theatre has a complex relationship with ageing (and especially female ageing). As youth has always been at the forefront of musicals, essentialist approaches to ageing in articulation and enactment of ageing musical characters often lead to aesthetic peripheries and creative stagnation. Aiming for a deeper understanding of how female ageing vocalities are perceived, dramaturged and performed in musical theatre, the article takes under consideration viewpoints from ‘outsiders’/ageing performers who work ‘at the centre’ of the musical theatre industry (West End and Broadway).Through a close analysis of two ageing female characters (Madame Armfeldt and Grandma) in the musicals A Little Night Music and Billy Elliot, this article discusses and critiques preconceptions of ageing in the dramaturgy and performance of these roles, and it argues that musicals frequently fail to give agency to the voice of their ageing women.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"291 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140233137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.2en
David Madden
{"title":"Jacques Greene’s Aging Temporalities","authors":"David Madden","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.2en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.2en","url":null,"abstract":"By way of a close reading of Quebec electronic dance music producer and DJ, Jacques Greene (né Philippe Aubin-Dionne), this article offers ways to think through and with aging studies, popular music studies and the notion of the career—which remains largely missing in studies of music scenes. Particular attention is devoted to Greene’s musical releases (two LPs, many EPs, singles and remixes), as well as his performance practice as a DJ and solo artist. To cut against dominant understandings of a career as a linear trajectory, developed in iterative stages of progress and decline, I consider the varied temporalities Greene experiences simultaneously and how his position in dance music scenes changes in relation to the contingencies of time. I argue that this temporal mode of analysis provides a generative theoretical tool kit for connecting studies of popular music with studies of aging. ","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"56 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140234316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.9en
Holly Riley
{"title":"Negotiating Genre, Style, and Contemporality in an Intergenerational Irish Music Ensemble","authors":"Holly Riley","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.9en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.9en","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines community negotiations of genre and style through the lens of intergenerational collaboration in a contemporary Irish music ensemble at Florida State University. In this ensemble, community members participated alongside university students in the ensemble through a state-funded senior education program. Throughout this process, students and community members navigated differences between local scene-established formats of musical material and new student-directed arrangements. Community members articulated desires to ‘keep the scene going’ and establish community longevity while negotiating this “shifting topography” (Shuker 2001: 6) of popular-traditional genre practice. The practices of this ensemble, explored through an autoethnographic lens with interview contributions from student and community members, build on existing studies on intergenerational ensemble practices (Harrington 2021, Conway and Hodgman 2008, Jang 2020), genre negotiation (Holt 2007), and aging identity (Bennet and Hodkinson 2012). This suggests important implications for intergenerational music-making and building music communities with deep generational and musical diversity.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"243 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140233686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.5en
James Millea
{"title":"An Ever Present Past","authors":"James Millea","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.5en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.5en","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores age in the work of Paul McCartney. It investigates how McCartney’s ongoing engagement with his own youth has shaped his musical output and accompanying visuals at key points throughout his career. It focuses specifically on the extended trilogy of self-titled McCartney albums, which culminate in two of his most recent releases, McCartney III (Capitol 2020) and McCartney III Imagined (Capitol 2021). Concentrating specifically on Paul McCartney’s voice in his music and image in music videos, from a popular music studies perspective, this article explores the McCartney albums as a distinct statement on the role of age in popular music.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"88 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140231990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.6en
Laura Way
{"title":"Aging, Nostalgia and Older Punk Women’s Fandom.","authors":"Laura Way","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.6en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i1.6en","url":null,"abstract":"Despite their continued engagement as audience throughout their lives, there is some suggestion that ageing, or older, fans have been at large omitted from fan studies (Middlemost, 2022). This does seem to be shifting, however, and there is a growing body of fandom scholarship concerning ageing fans. Indeed, in the context of punk, there has been a growing recognition of the continued significance of punk to older participants and fans (e.g. Andes, 2002, Bennett, 2006, Davis, 2006), contrasting earlier work which theorized punk as a youth subculture (see, for example, Hebdige, 1998). This reflects the increasing academic interest in the ageing popular music audience more broadly (Bennett and Hodkinson 2012). Despite such positive shifts, ageing women continue to be marginalised in such discussions concerning punk and older fans, meaning that much theoretical and conceptual understandings of ageing punks have failed to fully consider the interaction between ageing, gender and fandom.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"296 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140233247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}