Sara Cohen
Musicologist and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sara Cohen is a musicologist and academic. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford; her DPhil in social anthropology was awarded in 1987. The following year, she joined the newly founded Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool as a research fellow; she has remained with the IPM since then, and is its director as of 2018. Since 2017, she has also been the James and Constance Alsop Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool. She is a specialist in ethnographic research into popular music. Her first book Rock Culture in Liverpool has been described as "a landmark publication that introduced ethnographic methodology into the heart of popular music studies ... Cohen's book was the first to focus in detail and depth on a small number of musicians and their culture".
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- Rock Culture in Liverpool: Popular Music in the Making (1991) (294)
- Sounding out the City: Music and the Sensuous Production of Place (1995) (191)
- Ethnography and popular music studies (1993) (190)
- Local music policies within a global music industry: cultural quarters in Manchester and Sheffield (2000) (189)
- Unauthorising popular music heritage: outline of a critical framework (2014) (73)
- Musical memory, heritage and local identity: remembering the popular music past in a European Capital of Culture (2013) (51)
- Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles (2017) (38)
- Popular music, mapping, and the characterization of Liverpool (2010) (36)
- Popular music and urban regeneration: The music industries of Merseyside (1991) (35)
- More than the Beatles: Popular Music, Tourism and Urban Regeneration (1997) (33)
- Sites of popular music heritage : memories, histories, places (2015) (33)
- Popular music heritage, cultural memory and cultural identity (2014) (30)
- Bubbles, Tracks, Borders and Lines: Mapping Music and Urban Landscape (2012) (27)
- Popular music, gender and sexuality (2001) (26)
- Live music and urban landscape: mapping the beat in Liverpool (2012) (23)
- Liverpool Musicscapes: Music Performance, Movement and the Built Urban Environment (2010) (19)
- Urban Musicscapes: Mapping Music-making in Liverpool (2012) (16)
- Country at the Heart of the City: Music, Heritage, and Regeneration in Liverpool (2005) (13)
- Screaming at The Moptops: convergences between tourism and popular music (2005) (8)
- The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town . By Ruth Finnegan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 378 pp. (1990) (8)
- “Rock Landmark at Risk”: Popular Music, Urban Regeneration, and the Built Urban Environment (2007) (8)
- Heritage Rocks! Mapping Spaces of Popular Music Tourism (2013) (7)
- Unveiling Memory: Blue Plaques as In/tangible Markers of Popular Music Heritage (2014) (6)
- Introduction to the special issue: music, characterization and urban space (2010) (6)
- Society and culture in the making of rock music in Merseyside (1987) (4)
- ‘A fanzine of record’: Merseysound and mapping Liverpool’s post-punk popular musicscapes (2011) (4)
- Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014) (4)
- Mapping Cultures: Spatial Anthropology and Popular Cultural Memory (2015) (4)
- Paying One's Dues: The Music Business, the City and Urban Regeneration (2002) (4)
- Cavern journeys Music , migration and urban space (2010) (3)
- Jùjú: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music . By Christopher Alan Waterman. London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. 277 pp. (1992) (3)
- Bubbles, tracks, borders and lines: mapping popular music, genre and urban environments (2012) (2)
- DIG THE BEAT (2010) (1)
- Sustainable Publishing for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2019) (1)
- ”From the big dig to the big gig”: live music performance and social change in the European Capital of Culture 2008 (2013) (0)
- Music and City Tourism: Respect, Betrayal and the Haunting of the Beatles (2017) (0)
- Music, Memory and Wellbeing: A Pilot Project in Liverpool (2020) (0)
- 'Introduction' to special issue on popular music heritage (2013) (0)
- Continuity and change in popular music curation: Exhibiting the musical past in Liverpool (2020) (0)
- Hearth of Darkness: The Familiar, the Familial, and the Zombie (2013) (0)
- Chapter 1: Remembering, Ageing and Musicking (2020) (0)
- Music as City Heritage: Decline and Renewal in the Nashville of the North (2017) (0)
- Music and the City: Cultural Diversity in a Global Cosmopolis (2017) (0)
- Introduction to ‘Dance’ special issue (2006) (0)
- Music as a City Industry: Haemorrhage, Debt and the Politics of Music Policy-Making (2017) (0)
- Music as a City Sound: Rock Culture and the Poetics of Loss (2017) (0)
- Music as a City Quarter: Brands, Noises and Regeneration (2017) (0)
- Music as a City Business: Trial, Tribulation and Place in a Labour of Love (2017) (0)
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