Death and the rock star

In: [Ashgate popular and folk music series]

Abstract

The great gig in the sky : exploring popular music and death / Barbara Lebrun and Catherine Strong -- Death and taboo. The afterlife of the people's singer : bodily matters in a Dutch sing-along culture / Irene Stengs ; I don't preach premature suicide : the biopolitics of GG Allin / Ben Dumbauld ; Difference that exceeded understanding : remembering Michael Jackson (redux) / Susan Fast -- Mediating the dead. Mediation, generational memory and the dead music icon / Andy Bennett ; From death to birth : suicide and stardom in the musical biopic / Penny Spirou ; Social sorrow : tweeting the mourning of Whitney Houston / Taylor Cole Miller -- The labouring dead. Laneways of the dead : memorialising musicians in Melbourne / Catherine Strong ; Three faces of musical motherhood in death : Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston and Donna Summer / Paula Hearsum ; Enshrined : ushering Fela Kuti into the Western rock canon / Abigail Gardner ; Post-mortem Elvis : from cultural icon to transproperty / June M. Madeley and Daniel Downes -- Resurrections. Performing beyond the grave : the posthumous duet / Shelley Brunt ; There's a spectre haunting hip-hop : Tupac Shakur, holograms in concert and the future of live performance / Gina Arnold ; Post-mortem sampling in hip-hop recordings and the rap lament / Justin A. Williams