Abstract
Etymologically, nostalgia is a longing to return home. Music, as a temporal art, has numerous ways of suggesting or magnifying a vanished past, whether fantasized or actually experienced. This issue of Volume! offers a whole scope of various insights on the phenomenon of nostalgia, within a diversity of genres: French chanson, Canadian country song, cold wave… In turns a generational phenomenon, a marketing tool or an aesthetic cement for diverse musical communities, the protean aspect of nostalgia is investigated by the international contributors to this issue from a broad spectrum of social sciences. This issue aims at taking part in the pluridisciplinary debate on the central importance of nostalgia within popular music.
| Translated title of the contribution | Popular Music Nostalgia |
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| Original language | French |
| Place of Publication | Dijon |
| Publisher | Les presses du réel |
| Number of pages | 230 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-2-913169-36-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |