Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life

by Michael Pickering, Emily Keightley

Overview

This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137441201
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/25/2015
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	211
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Michael Pickering is Emeritus Professor in the Social Sciences department at Loughborough University, UK. He has published in the areas of media and cultural history, sociology of culture, music studies and memory studies.

Emily Keightley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests include the mediation of memory, time and everyday life. She has published on topics which include everyday memory, mediated mobility, memory and methodology, generational transmission and painful pasts.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Media and Memory
2. Resources for Remembering
3. Purpose and Meaning
4. Value and Significance
Pieces of the Past