This article revisits, reviews and revises the much cited and magisterial description of
successive historical death mentalities from the Middle Ages to modern society as proposed …

This article critically reviews the edited collection Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural
Policy Concept published in 2020 as well as two Australian policy documents. We review …

Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Names: Kardos, Leah, author. Title:
Blackstar Theory: The last works of David Bowie/Leah Kardos. Description: New York …

A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late
eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty‑first century, reaches into almost every …

INTRODUCTION… if a life is not grievable, it is not quite a life; it does not qualify as a life
and is not worth a note. It is already the unburied, if not the unburiable.(Butler 2004, 34) …

The definition of “rock,” as well as its splintering, disintegrating, and combining into various
subgenres, has been a constant presence in popular music studies. 1 As a result, in this …

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and
complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans" jazz funeral" to jazz in …

When an iconic pop star dies, agency regarding that artist's persona and work is distributed
in ways that transform the artist's significance and reveal much about the societies in which …

I once read that after Kurt Cobain died Courtney Love gave all his clothes to the Goodwill.
Their daughter didn't need a pile of baggy sweaters or torn jeans to remember him by, or …

Throughout history, from ballads to requiems, music has played an important social role in
reflection on mortality. Not only do musicians articulate their angst and thoughts about death …