Curating Pop: Exhibiting Popular Music in the Museum

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List of figures and tables Acknowledgments
1. Curatorial practice in popular music museums: an introduction
2. Canonic representations: the celebration of dominant (and hidden) histories
3. Selling the museum experience: curation, economies, and visitor experience
4. Popular music and place: local, national and global stories
5. Treating objects like art: curating material culture
6. Telling stories: narratives of popular music's past
7. Curator subjectivity: influence and bias in popular music exhibitions
8. Living history: nostalgia as affective curatorial practice
9. Managing the music: Sound in the popular music museum
10. Beyond the typology: concluding thoughts References Index Museums covered: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (Nashville, United States) Arts Centre Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia) KD's Elvis Presley Museum (Hawera, North Island, New Zealand) Pow

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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.

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[Contributes] to an ongoing body of academic knowledge, in generating typologies that would be useful for further research

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