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

网络文化和新技术的出现改变了21世纪音乐知识的获得和观众对旧音乐流派的思考。虽然过去的音乐现在很容易为歌迷和学者所理解，但对于音乐意义的谈判，时间性和回顾的含义还没有深入讨论。该项目试图通过应用两种分析观点来解决这一问题：它考察了回顾对音乐接受过程的影响，以及关于其历史编排的影响。该项目结合对观众话语(在媒体和网络环境中)和身临其境的人种学研究(在音乐会、展览和音乐遗产网站上)的分析，探索回顾元素如何影响数字时代对音乐流派和历史的感知和呈现。这项研究集中在两个案例研究--节拍和朋克体裁--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，以突出回溯性知觉的内在局部维度。这项研究旨在发展流行音乐历史性的概念，它包括自我反思的过程和围绕研究者个人主体地位的回顾研究。它将提供解决策略，以处理流行音乐研究(和相关领域)中不同形式的意义感知，并追踪学术策略如何随着学科和部分主题的老化而适应。

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.