Anja Löbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1602998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anja Löbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anja |
| FAMILY NAME | Löbert |
| SIGNATURE | LÖBERT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trading Offstage Photos
The trading of offstage photographs formed a living culture in the 1990s, and its material trace had an interesting relationship to music heritage. Popular music heritage is evidently a complex and empirically variable phenomenon. Different formations of heritage may indicate that there is an issue over just how meaningful authorized popular music heritage discourses are in terms of how individuals celebrate and curate their own musical memories.…
Penfriendships, Exchange Economies, and “FBs”
This article1[1] Parts of this article have previously been published in German language in Löbert Löbert, Anja “Brieffreundschaften, Tauschökonomien und Fanfotografie am Vorabend der Digitalen Revolution: Take That Fans Zwischen 1990 und 1996.” Creative Crowds: Perspektiven der Fanforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ed. VeraCuntz-Leng. Darmstadt: Büchner, 2014. 34–53. Print. [Google Scholar] (“Brieffreundschaften”). illustrates how, prior to th…
Fandom as a religious form
Using the example of Cliff Richard fans, this article investigates to what extent the rites and rituals exercised in fandom can be regarded as representations of a religious form as understood by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim inThe Elementary Forms of Religious Life.Because empirical research has established its significance, the pop concert experience and its echoing effects are used as a starting point to explore the thesis that fans dr…
Cliff Richard's self-presentation as a redeemer
Although tremendously popular, Great Britain's long-term icon Cliff Richard has been widely neglected by popular music studies. This article aims to correct this omission by introducing an argument that claims that Cliff Richard portrays himself to a considerable degree as a saviour figure. Evidence for this thesis will be drawn from three meaningful dimensions in popular music: song lyrics, pictorial self-representations, and image components. T…
Fandom as a religious form
Using the example of Cliff Richard fans, this article investigates to what extent the rites and rituals exercised in fandom can be regarded as representations of a religious form as understood by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim inThe Elementary Forms of Religious Life.Because empirical research has established its significance, the pop concert experience and its echoing effects are used as a starting point to explore the thesis that fans dr…
Cliff Richard's self-presentation as a redeemer
Although tremendously popular, Great Britain's long-term icon Cliff Richard has been widely neglected by popular music studies. This article aims to correct this omission by introducing an argument that claims that Cliff Richard portrays himself to a considerable degree as a saviour figure. Evidence for this thesis will be drawn from three meaningful dimensions in popular music: song lyrics, pictorial self-representations, and image components. T…
Penfriendships, Exchange Economies, and “FBs”
This article1[1] Parts of this article have previously been published in German language in Löbert Löbert, Anja “Brieffreundschaften, Tauschökonomien und Fanfotografie am Vorabend der Digitalen Revolution: Take That Fans Zwischen 1990 und 1996.” Creative Crowds: Perspektiven der Fanforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ed. VeraCuntz-Leng. Darmstadt: Büchner, 2014. 34–53. Print. [Google Scholar] (“Brieffreundschaften”). illustrates how, prior to th…
Cliff Richard's self-presentation as a redeemer
Although tremendously popular, Great Britain's long-term icon Cliff Richard has been widely neglected by popular music studies. This article aims to correct this omission by introducing an argument that claims that Cliff Richard portrays himself to a considerable degree as a saviour figure. Evidence for this thesis will be drawn from three meaningful dimensions in popular music: song lyrics, pictorial self-representations, and image components. T…
Fandom as a religious form
Using the example of Cliff Richard fans, this article investigates to what extent the rites and rituals exercised in fandom can be regarded as representations of a religious form as understood by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim inThe Elementary Forms of Religious Life.Because empirical research has established its significance, the pop concert experience and its echoing effects are used as a starting point to explore the thesis that fans dr…
Penfriendships, Exchange Economies, and “FBs”
This article1[1] Parts of this article have previously been published in German language in Löbert Löbert, Anja “Brieffreundschaften, Tauschökonomien und Fanfotografie am Vorabend der Digitalen Revolution: Take That Fans Zwischen 1990 und 1996.” Creative Crowds: Perspektiven der Fanforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ed. VeraCuntz-Leng. Darmstadt: Büchner, 2014. 34–53. Print. [Google Scholar] (“Brieffreundschaften”). illustrates how, prior to th…
Trading Offstage Photos
The trading of offstage photographs formed a living culture in the 1990s, and its material trace had an interesting relationship to music heritage. Popular music heritage is evidently a complex and empirically variable phenomenon. Different formations of heritage may indicate that there is an issue over just how meaningful authorized popular music heritage discourses are in terms of how individuals celebrate and curate their own musical memories.…
Music History and Culture (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works)