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Heritage Media and ‘Classic’ Re-presentation

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This chapter examines the significance and contribution of media to the representation of popular music as heritage. The chapter begins by examining the importance of documentaries, from those focusing on different eras of popular music to more niche documentaries that focus on particular artists and their work. This is followed by consideration of the role of film, including films that depict contemporaneously pivotal events in the evolution of contemporary popular music that have since become historical timepieces. Attention then turns to print media, including classic rock and pop magazines. Finally, the vogue for rock and pop (auto)biographies is explored, these offering space for more detailed accounts that often fill in details missing from other forms of heritage media due to editing considerations and budget restrictions.

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    Country Joe also appeared with his band Country Joe and the Fish and was in fact the only artist to appear twice at Woodstock (see Allen 2004).

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    In January 2008, Mojo was taken over by Bauer who has published the magazine since this time.

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Bennett, A. (2022). Heritage Media and ‘Classic’ Re-presentation. In: Popular Music Heritage. Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08296-2_5

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