This Volume Examines The Location Of Memories And Histories Of Popular Music And Its Multiple Pasts, Exploring The Different 'places' In Which Popular Music Can Be Situated, Including The Local Physical Site, The Museum Storeroom And Exhibition Space, And The Digitized Archive And Display Space Made Possible By The Internet. Contributors From A Broad Range Of Disciplines Such As Archive Studies, Popular Music Studies, Media And Cultural Studies, Leisure And Tourism, Sociology, Museum Studies, Communication Studies, Cultural Geography, And Social Anthropology Visit The Specialized Locus Of Popular Music Histories And Heritage, Offering Diverse Set Of Approaches. Popular Music Studies Has Increasingly Engaged With Popular Music Histories, Exploring Memory Processes And Considering Identity, Collective And Cultural Memory, And Notions Of Popular Culture's Heritage Values, Yet Few Accounts Have Spatially Located Such Trends To Focus On The Spaces And Places Where We Encounter And Engender Our Relationship With Popular Music's History And Legacies. This Book Offers A Timely Re-evaluation Of Such Sites, Reinserting Them Into The Narratives Of Popular Music And Offering New Perspectives On Their Function And Significance Within The Production Of Popular Music Heritage. Bringing Together Recent Research Based On Extensive Fieldwork From Scholars Of Popular Music Studies, Cultural Sociology, And Museum Studies, Alongside The New Insights Of Practice-based Considerations Of Current Practitioners Within The Field Of Popular Music Heritage, This Is The First Collection To Address The Interdisciplinary Interest In Situating Popular Music Histories, Heritages, And Pasts. The Book Will Therefore Appeal To A Wide And Growing Academic Readership Focused On Issues Of Heritage, Cultural Memory, And Popular Music, And Provide A Timely Intervention In A Field Of Study That Is Engaging Scholars From Across A Broad Spectrum Of Disciplinary Backgrounds And Theoretical Perspectives-- Provided By Publisher.