Böcker av Sara Cohen

This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to age as decline. It contributes to the development of qualitative research methodologies by utilizing and reflecting on methods for studying music, memory, and ageing across diverse and interconnected contexts. Using the notion of inheritance to trouble its core themes of music, memory, ageing, and methodology, it examines different ways in which the concept of inheritance is understood but also how it commonly refers to the practice of passing on, and the connections this establishes across time and space. It confronts the ageist discourses that associate popular music predominantly with youth and that focus narrowly, and almost exclusively, on music's therapeutic function for older adults. By presenting research which examines various intersections of music and ageing outside of a therapeutic context or framework, the book brings a much-needed intervention.

This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. It examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s.

Liverpool has gained a national and international reputation for popular music, most recently recognised in its designation as a UNESCO City of Music.

How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. It examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring.