How we feel the music
Popular Music by Elders and for Elders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4887023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Murray Forman (Northeastern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-260 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143012000037 |
| OpenAlex | W2147994767 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article is inspired by the voices and perceptions of elder music fans and performing musicians, especially those older than 70 years of age. Based upon field interviews and ethnographic observations, it challenges the deleterious influences of social labelling and ageist perspectives (including casual yet damaging attributions of nostalgic yearning) that tend to delegitimise the musical interests or tastes of older citizens. By also emphasising musical performance, the article explores the active forms of music making as a strategy that mitigates notions of elders as non-productive consumers. The analysis further engages the contexts of musical performances within regulated institutional settings of assisted living residences, interrogating the logic and discourses of commercial management or State bureaucracies as they are expressed through organised musical recreation activities
Aesthetics · Art · Attribution · Bureaucracy · Casual · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Musical · Perception · Political science · Popular music · Recreation · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |