Curating Pop: Exhibiting Popular Music in the Museum

Curating Pop speaks to the rapidly growing interest in the study of popular music exhibitions, which has occurred alongside the increasing number of popular music museums in operation across the world. Focusing on curatorial practices and processes, this book draws on interviews with museum workers and curators from twenty museums globally, including the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, the Experience Music Project in Seattle and the PopMuseum in Prague. Through a consideration of the subjective experiences of curators involved in the exhibition of popular music in museums in a range of geographic locations, Curating Pop compares institutional practices internationally, illustrating the ways in which popular music history is presented to visitors in a wider sense.

Sarah Baker is Professor in Cultural Sociology at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (2011), Teaching Youth Studies Through Popular Culture (2014), Community Custodians of Popular Music's Past: A DIY Approach to Heritage (2017) and the editor of Redefining Mainstream Popular Music (2013), Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives (2015), Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-It-Together (2015), The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage (2018) and Remembering Popular Music's Past: Memory-Heritage-History (2019).

Lauren Istvandity is a lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia. She is the author of The Lifetime Soundtrack: Music and Autobiographical Memory (2019) and co-author of Curating Pop: Popular Music in the Museum with Sarah Baker and Raphael Nowak (2019, Bloomsbury). She is the co-editor of two The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage (2018) and Remembering Popular Music's Past: Memory-Heritage-History (2019). She is a past recipient of the John Oxley Library Fellowship, State Library of Queensland (2017).

Raphaël Nowak is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social andCultural Research in Queensland, Australia. He is a cultural sociologist andhas expertise on music consumption, digital technologies, popular musicheritage practices, and systems of classifications in culture. He is the authorof Consuming Music in the Digital Age:Technologies, Roles, and Everyday Life (2015) and co-editor of Networked Music Cultures: ContemporaryApproaches, Emerging Issues (2016).