Troubling Inheritances: Memory, Music, and Aging - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sara Cohen is James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music and Director of the Institute of Popular Music at Liverpool University, UK. She has a DPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University and is author of Rock Culture in Liverpool (1991) and Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture (2007), co-author of Harmonious Relations (1994) and Liverpool's Musical Landscapes (2018), and co-editor of Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014). She has specialised in interdisciplinary research on popular music, with a particular interest in ethnographic approaches and research on place, heritage, memory and ageing.

Line Grenier is Professor at the Département de communication at Université de Montréal in Montréal, Québec, Canada, where she teaches predominantly in the areas of media theory, memory and media, and popular culture. Her work on the history and politics of local music and music industries, the Céline Dion phenomenon and the figures of fame it embodies, as well as the business and politics of live music, has been published in several journals, including Popular Music, Cultural Studies, Recherches féministes, Ethnomusicology, Recherches sociographiques, and Musicultures. More recently, in the context of the research partnership ACT (Ageing Communication Technology) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and of which she is one of the cofounders, her research focuses on intersections of ageing and music. Her current project focuses on Deaf cultures of ageing, and deaf musics.

Ros Jennings is Professor is Ageing, Culture and Media, working as a researcher in ageing, identities and autoethnographic methods and as a research mentor and researcher developer in the School of Health, The Business School and the School of Creatives at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.