Concepts of listening to popular music and the retrospective mode – tracing local and virtual reflections on 'old' music genres in the twenty-first century

在21世纪，网络文化和新技术的出现改变了音乐知识的获取和观众对旧音乐类型的反思。虽然现在歌迷和学者很容易接触到过去的音乐，但对于音乐意义的谈判，暂时性和回顾的含义尚未得到深入解决。该项目旨在通过应用两个分析视角来解决这个问题：它研究了回顾对音乐接受过程的影响，以及关于其历史表现的影响。基于对观众话语（在媒体和网络环境中）和沉浸式自我民族志研究（在音乐会、展览和音乐遗产遗址中）的综合分析，该项目探讨了回顾性元素如何影响数字时代音乐流派和历史的感知和呈现。该研究集中于两个案例研究——节奏和朋克流派——并将在伦敦进行的初步研究结果与在汉堡进行的新研究结果进行对比，以突出回顾性感知的内在本地维度。本研究旨在发展一种流行音乐历史性的概念，该概念结合了自我反思的过程和围绕研究者个人主体立场的回顾研究。它将为处理流行音乐研究（及相关领域）中不同形式的意义感知提供解决方案策略，并追踪学术策略如何随着学科和部分主题的增长而适应。

The advent of online culture and new technologies has changed the acquisition of musical knowledge and audience reflections on old music genres in the twenty-first century. While music of the past is nowadays easily accessible to fans and academics, the implications of temporality and retrospection for a negotiation of musical meaning have not been addressed in-depth. The project sets out to remedy this issue by applying two analytical perspectives: It examines the impact of retrospection on processes of music reception, and in regards to its historiographic presentation. Building on the combined analysis of audience discourses (in media and online contexts) and immersive autoethnographic research (at concerts, exhibitions, and in music heritage sites), the project explores how retrospective elements affect the perception and presentation of music genres and histories in the digital age. The research focuses on two case studies – the genres beat and punk – and contrasts the results of preliminary research conducted in London against new research in Hamburg in order to highlight the intrinsic local dimensions of retrospective perception. The study aims to develop a concept of popular music historicity that incorporates processes of self-reflection and a study of retrospection that revolves around the individual subject-position of the researcher. It will offer solution strategies for dealing with divergent forms of meaning perception within popular music studies (and related fields) and trace how academic strategies adapt as the discipline and part of its subject matter grow older.