In my tomb
Unveiling the Beach Boys state historical landmark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21783604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dale Carter (Aarhus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 254-272 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-7133 • E-ISSN: 1743-1646 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/pomh.39054 |
| OpenAlex | W3038068958 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
In recent decades, popular music in the USA, UK and elsewhere has increasingly been addressed as cultural heritage: by state authorities, commercial and professional interests, and fans. This article contributes to the growing scholarship on popular music heritage through a case study of the 2005 dedication of a California state historical landmark at the site of the Beach Boys’ childhood home and the process that enabled it. Drawing on concepts rehearsed by scholars in popular music, heritage studies and related fields, it identifies the discourses and interests attached to the exercise, and argues that the landmark’s establishment saw a high degree of cooperation between public officials, professional interests and grass-roots activists. Although the landmark risked enshrining and entombing the group in a monument to their early-era image of surf, sand and romance, its dedication ceremony saw fans recognizing the group in more informed, realistic, respectful and up-to-date ways
Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Ceremony · Cultural heritage · Geography · Landmark · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Popular music · Romance · Scholarship · Sociology · Visual arts · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture
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Identifying Do-it-Yourself Places of Popular Music Preservation
Music in Everyday Life
Notes towards a typology of the DIY institution
Popular Music, Cultural Memory, and Heritage
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage
Home is Where the Heart is
Record and Hold
The sound of yesteryear on display
Talkin bout my generation
Popular music as cultural heritage
Unauthorising popular music heritage
Exhibiting Popular Music
Between Memory and History
The field of cultural production, or
Rock and soul
Retrospective Cultural Consecration in Popular Music
Critical Discourse and the Cultural Consecration of American Films
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |