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| About the book |
From Bjorn Again to the Illegal Eagles, from Black Stabbath to the Essex Pistols and the Bootleg Beatles, tribute bands comprise a significant sector of many national music scenes. Access All Eras is the first book to examine the tribute and cover band phenomenon and its place within the global popular music industry. The ability of tributes to reinforce or challenge the very idea of stardom is explored through studies of imitations of various iconic pop and rock performers, including Elvis, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, ABBA and the Beach Boys. Analysis of such tribute acts can tell us much about how the meanings of performers and performance circulate globally, and are resisted or accommodated by local music cultures in the commercialisation of live and recorded memories. The book also looks at music industry attitudes towards imitation, including copyright issues and the use of multimedia performance techniques to deliver the `authentic? tribute experience. It offers an insight into how understandings of nostalgia and celebrity circulate within contemporary society and are connected with other media and leisure industries. Access All Eras is key reading for students in popular music, media studies, cultural studies, arts, music, sociology, performing arts and popular culture studies. |
| About the authors |
| Table of contents |
Introduction Even better than the real thing: Understanding the tribute band phenomenon. 'You've got to carry that weight': Tribute acts in the entertainment supermarket Holly Tessler Roses and Rotten Tomatoes: A case study of Liverpool's Matthew Street Festival and the contested spaces of cultural redevelopment 1982, The Beatles live in Moscow: Tribute audiences, music history and memory The music goes on and on and on... and on - popular music's affective franchise In the wake of Hendrix: Reflections on a life after death Fabricating the fab four: Pastice and parody 'Smoke gets in your ears': The Marlboro flashback tours as agent of change in the Netherlands Yearning for Eleki: On Ventures tribute bands in Japan All the king's Elvis: Identifying with Elvis through musical tribute Selling out or buying in? The dual career of the original and cover band Toca Raul! Praise singers on Brazil's central Plateau Tian Ci - Faye Wong and English songs in the Cantopop and Mandapop repertoire The Tribute Industry Tribute without attribution: Kopikat, covers and copyright in Papua New Guinea |
