Professor Andy Bennett draws on his recent ethnographic work with music fans now in their forties and fifties to both readdress the dominant focus on youth and explode stereotypes of ageing music fans as nostalgists.

Growing old disgracefully? Popular music and the ageing fan

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Growing old disgracefully? Popular music and the ageing fan

Growing old disgracefully? Popular music and the ageing fan