Curating Pop
Exhibiting Popular Music in the Museum
Description:... List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Curatorial practice in popular music museums: an introduction -- 2. Canonic representations: the celebration of dominant (and hidden) histories -- 3. Selling the museum experience: curation, economies, and visitor experience -- 4. Popular music and place: local, national and global stories -- 5. Treating objects like art: curating material culture -- 6. Telling stories: narratives of popular music's past -- 7. Curator subjectivity: influence and bias in popular music exhibitions -- 8. Living history: nostalgia as affective curatorial practice -- 9. Managing the music: Sound in the popular music museum -- 10. Beyond the typology: concluding thoughts -- References -- Index -- Museums covered: -- Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (Nashville, United States) -- Arts Centre Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia) -- KD's Elvis Presley Museum (Hawera, North Island, New Zealand) -- Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia) -- Australian Country Music Hall of Fame (Tamworth, Australia) -- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland, United States) -- Georgia Music Hall of Fame (Macon, United States) -- Experience Music Project (EMP) (Seattle, United States) -- Heart of Texas Country Music Museum (Brady, United States) -- PopMuseum (Prague, Czech Republic) -- Hector Country Music Museum (Hector, South Island, New Zealand) -- Museum RockArt (Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands) -- Reykjanes Museum of Heritage (Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland) -- Ramones Museum (Berlin, Germany) -- Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (Hilversum, the Netherlands) -- The Grammy Museum (Los Angeles, United States) -- British Music Experience (BME) (London, United Kingdom) -- Tónlistarsafn Íslands (Kópavogur, Iceland) -- National Museum of African American Music (Nashville, United States).
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