Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Historiography
- Who writes popular music history?
- Industry, critics and
journalists, institutions.
- What institutional pressures
are they under, and what
vested interests do they have?
- Advertisements influence
consumers thus
determining which artists
are the most successful.
- Any form of media coverage is
essentially advertisement for an
artist, regardless of what is written.
- How history is perceived
to have taken place.
- Events can happen, but if
there is no documentation of
said event, it will be forgotten.
- Plutarchian - the study of
great men and their
character. Plutarch was a
Greek historian and
biographer who wrote about
great men in history.
- Sarah Thornton. 1990, 'Strategies
for Reconstructing the Popular
Past'
- "When it comes to assigning historical
importance to a pop cultural event, 4
criteria are employed - sales figures,
biographical interest, critical acclaim
and amount of media coverage."