I have a new edited collection out next year – related to my long standing interest in musical nostalgia. I have posted the info about the book at the bottom of this post – but to give you more of a flavor – I have copied the draft contents page below. I will be speaking about the project alongside two of the contributors at Newcastle University on Sept 4th as part of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference – I will post about this later.

Introduction

Home, Nostalgia and Song. Paul Carr

History, Postmodernism and the Music Industry. Paul Carr 

Production, Text and Reception. Paul Carr

Production

 ‘Tales from the Surrey Countryside’: Paul Weller’s Wild Wood and Modernist Nostalgia as Hypochondria of the Heart. Peter Hughes Jachimiak

Navigating the Ties That Bind: Nostalgia, Bruce Springsteen, and the “Long Walk Home” Carlee Migliorisi

A Lifetime, One Day: Nostalgia and Dream in the Latest Album of Silvia Pérez Cruz Julia Escribano Blanco

Nostalgia of the Frontier: Baja Mali Knindža and the Songs of Serbian Diaspora 

Ondřej Daniel

Sound Resignifications and Technostalgic Incursions: the Revival in Music Production. África González 

Text

When You Come Back Home: The Front Lawn and their Dream Home in New Zealand Matthew Bannister

Narrating home in times of war: Ukrainian Popular Music after the Russian Full-Scale Invasion Anna Glew

Hanyangmen Garden: Nostalgia and solace in dialectal folk song during Covid-19 Yangke Li 

Reception

Back Where We’ve Never Been: Daniel O’Donnell and the Country ‘n’ Irish Imaginary. Stan Erraught

 ‘Let’s Win Another Trophy Like We Did in ’55’: Representations of the North East throughout Makina Music. Chris Inglis. 

“Abba Were my Constant and my Saviour”: How Nostalgia, Memories, and Notions of ‘Home’ Shape Peoples Favourite ABBA Songs. Shanika C.S Ranasinghe