- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Open University Press; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0335216900
- ISBN-13: 978-0335216901
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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From Björn Again to the Illegal Eagles, from Black Stabbath to the Essex Pistols and the Bootleg Beatles, tribute bands comprise a significant sector of many national music scenes. Access All Eras is the first book to examine the tribute and cover band phenomenon and its place within the global popular music industry. The ability of tributes to reinforce or challenge the very idea of stardom is explored through studies of imitations of various iconic pop and rock performers, including Elvis, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, ABBA and the Beach Boys. Analysis of such tribute acts can tell us much about how the meanings of performers and performance circulate globally, and are resisted or accommodated by local music cultures in the commercialisation of live and recorded memories.
The book also looks at music industry attitudes towards imitation, including copyright issues and the use of multimedia performance techniques to deliver the ‘authentic’ tribute experience. It offers an insight into how understandings of nostalgia and celebrity circulate within contemporary society and are connected with other media and leisure industries.
Access All Eras is key reading for students in popular music, media studies, cultural studies, arts, music, sociology, performing arts and popular culture studies.
About the Author
Shane Homan is Lecturer in Media and Popular Music at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. A former musician and performer, his first book, 'The Mayor's a Square', about live music in Australia, was published last year.
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Ten years ago I was struck by my mother's response to a family offer to pay for tickets for her to see Neil Diamond when he was on one of his regular Australian tours. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Ten years ago I was struck by my mother's response to a family offer to pay for tickets for her to see Neil Diamond when he was on one of his regular Australian tours. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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This is a very useful book. The `meaning' of the tribute band seems to have two complementary aspects. Firstly, rock, soul and pop have been around for a long while, and fans, critics and the music business have combined to build the story of popular music since the watershed moment of rock'n'roll. There were no tribute bands a generation ago, chiefly because there was no history of rock'n'roll, rock, soul, reggae and pop to deal with in this way. Tribute bands are one aspect of this sense of the history of popular music - the rock'n'roll generation and its children have grown up with this music, and they are happy to replay their youths with tribute bands if the real thing is no longer available. The phenomenon is global, and this book makes welcome references to tribute bands operating within linguistic and musical cultures outside the Anglo-American mainstream. But despite the great title, it doesn't quite get the point about the tribute band within post-postmodern celebrity culture - 'tribute' doesn't mean history any more. There are now many tribute bands playing contemporary music - Maybe Winehouse, for example - who offer a simulacrum of the live experience, and in this case a more reliable version of the 'real' thing, for far lower ticket prices. It's not just access all eras, but access for all, to an experience which is no longer purely and simply defined in relation to 'authenticity'. Whether or not this is an improvement, it's the way we live now.
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