Buddy Holly - Dave Laing†
After the Day the Music Died: Memorializing
Buddy Holly - Dave Laing†
Dave Laing† [+]
University of Liverpool
Dave Laing, who died suddenly in January 2019, was a writer, editor and lecturer, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. His works include The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985) and (with Phil Hardy) The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music (1995). He is an editor of the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World whose first volumes were published in 2003.
Description
The chapter discusses the memorialization of Buddy Holly following his death and the way in which his postumous career unfolded, contending that Holly’s posthumous career has been the combined and often conflictual and contradictory product of a variety of human and institutional agencies in an actor network that established itself after February 1959.