Ageing and Popular Music

Gardner, Abigail ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2994-741X (2026) Ageing and Popular Music. In: Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology. Routledge. ISBN 9781032273075

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Abstract

This chapter covers three main areas that are important for understanding the relationship between popular music and ageing. The first is how age is represented in contemporary western popular cultural discourses. The second turns to the experience of fandom and ageing in relation to popular music and the third outlines theoretical concepts around time that emerge from considering the current contexts of production and consumption of popular music. Popular music is used in its largest sense, encompassing genres beyond pop, to include punk, folk and rock. The chapter uses work from scholars of popular music, ageing studies, and sociology.

Item Type: Book Section
Additional Information: Chapter 48
Subjects: M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music
Divisions: Schools and Research Institutes > School of Arts, Culture and Environment
Depositing User: Abigail Gardner
Date Deposited: 20 Feb 2026 12:25
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2026 12:56
URI: https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15856

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