Popular Music Heritage Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City

The celebration of popular music can be an important mode of cultural expression and a source of pride for urban communities. This Element analyses the capacity for popular music heritage to enact cultural justice in the deindustrialising cities of Wollongong Australia; Detroit USA; and Birmingham UK. The Element develops a critical approach to cultural justice for examining music and the city in a heritage context and outlines how the quest for cultural justice manifests in three key ways: collection preservation and archiving; curation storytelling and heritage interpretation; and mobilising communities for collective action.