Descript |
xxiii, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Contents |
Better off dead or, making it the hard way / S. Jones -- Altared sites : celebrity webshrines as shared mourning / J.L. Andsager -- Flaunting it : style, identity, and the social construction of Elvis fandom / Van M. Cagle -- Elvis forever / E. Doss -- Commemoration as crossover : remembering Selena / M.C. Beltrán -- Karen : the hagiographic impulse anorexia in the public memory of a pop star / P.J. Bowers and S.H. Grey -- Posthumous Patsy Clines : constructions of identity in hillbilly heaven / J. Jensen -- Collectively remembering Tupac : the narrative mediation of current events, cultural histories, and social identities / G. Kamberelis and G. Dimitriadis -- Who owns him? : the debate on John Lennon / J. Mäkelä -- Taming the wildest : what we've made of Louis Prima / J.J. Pauly -- The strange career of Robert Johnson's records / E.W. Rothenbuhler -- A career in music : from obscurity to immortality / M. Aho -- Dead rock stars 1900 / J. Sterne. |
ISBN |
0820463655 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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