Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies) - Hardcover

Pickering, Michael; Keightley, Emily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137441208 ISBN 13: 9781137441201

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

The two most salient technologies of remembering in everyday life are photography and recorded music. Photography, Music and Memory is a refreshing ethnographic study in which Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley explore how they act as vehicles or catalysts of memory. The book applies the concept of the mnemonic imagination, developed in their previous book, to the uses of these complementary technologies, showing how they contribute to distinct yet interrelated stages in the distillation of experience. In-depth comparative studies of visual and sonic media are rare. Pickering and Keightley make amends for this in a rich, detailed study of how these particular media inform and support our individual and collective understandings of the past. They draw on the extensive fieldwork they have conducted, and discuss the various ways in which the mnemonic resources associated with photography and recorded music are integral to vernacular memory, enhancing the multiple narratives we construct in our everyday social worlds.

About this title

Product Description:

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.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1137441208
• ISBN 13: 9781137441201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 221