"You Can Feel It All Over" - Places of Popular Music Performance in Historical and Contemporary Archaeology

Popular music production and performance are central to place-based experiences and heritage narrartives, past and present, with cities like New Orleans, Memphis, Liverpool, and Detroit intimately connected with histories of music-making and consumption. Through a focus on popular music legacies and their connections to particular places, people, and musical genres, contributors examine how deeper-rooted musical traditions inspire and counterbalance the fleeting fame of chart-topping music. The papers in this session discuss a variety of archaeological approaches to places, materials, and people associated with legacies of popular music from the 19th century to the recent past. Contributors examine the interplay between material culture and acoustic landscapes to reveal the potential for music-making legacies to address issues of urban well-being, preserve memories of musical heritage, and participate in revitalization efforts, reaching disparate communities in the process.