Buddy Holly - Dave Laing†
After the Day the Music Died: Presence and Representations
Buddy Holly - Dave Laing†
Dave Laing† [+]
University of Liverpool
Dave Laing, who died suddenly in January 2019, was a writer, editor and lecturer, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. His works include The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985) and (with Phil Hardy) The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music (1995). He is an editor of the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World whose first volumes were published in 2003.
Description
This chapter further explores the mechanisms whereby Buddy Holly's posthumous career has been managed, repressing his absence and making him present, however momentarily. There are different ways of demonstrating that “Buddy Holly Lives”. The individual members of the actor network involved in the representational side of the posthumous career include musicians, producers, writers and actors; the institutional members include music publishers, record companies and the Holly estate.