Popular music, mapping, and the characterization of Liverpool

Abstract

is an archaeologist specializing in contemporary archaeology, the archaeology of recent conflict and landscape. After 21 years with English Heritage, he recently took up the post of Abstract Liverpool is widely recognized for its iconic 'Three Graces'-a trio of grand buildings that stand along the city's River Mersey waterfront. In this article we argue that there are a similar kind of iconic 'three graces' in Liverpool's popular music and heritage landscapes: the Cavern Club, Eric's Club, and Cream. These three venues have taken on broader symbolic meanings as representative of entire musical styles and eras. As such they dominate the histories of the city's music-making cultures, producing (and reproduced through) a variety of representations, texts and mappings of the city's musical past. This paper draws from ethnographic materials gathered through a two-year research project to decentre this 'master page' or 'master map' of the three Popular music, mapping, and the characterization of Liverpool 127 © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2010.graces with a series of mappings of Liverpool's popular music heritage that calls attention to hidden or alternative histories of the city that are less often mapped.

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