Popular Songs and Breakfast Foods

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Honestly.

John: Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Hello, I'm John Paul Meyers. I recently defended my dissertation in Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania. My dissertation is titled "'Rock and Roll Never Forgets': Memory, History, and Performance in the Tribute Band Scene." My dissertation examines tribute bands both in the United States and in Latin America, paying particular attention to what I term "historical consciousness in popular music": the sense that the past in popular music is worth knowing about, remembering, and in the particular case of tribute bands, re-performing as accurately as possible. I'm currently in the process of turning this research into a book. I also write about jazz, popular music, and American culture--all three of those things understood as broadly as possible.

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