Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in by Michael Pickering, Emily Keightley

Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in by Michael Pickering, Emily Keightley

By Michael Pickering, Emily Keightley

This publication explores how images and recorded track act as autos or catalysts in approaches of remembering, and the way they're seemed, taken care of, valued and drawn upon as assets connecting earlier and found in daily life. It does so through key recommendations: vernacular reminiscence and the mnemonic mind's eye.

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In this respect what the data show are not broad general features connected with social categories; rather, the social categories themselves provide a starting point in explaining popular remembering experiences and practices. Different forms of social identity and subject-position, different lifestyles and place in the social order, lead to diversity in the ways practices operate or challenges are made to the conventions adopted in engagement with practices, and they certainly affect degrees of competences in such operation and engagement, but they do not always do so in any straightforward or simple manner.

65+ Gabor – retired, agricultural sector; living with long-term partner; originally from Hungary, resident in the UK from age sixteen. Benjamin – white, married, retired from work in computer science. Groups 65+ Iris and Matthew – white, parents of four children, retired. 35–50/18–35 Vanca, Fara and Sihi – British Asian family, mother working in community organisation, daughters at university. The case-study informants are both usual and unusual. They are usual in more or less according with a general pattern of response, but unusual in the quality of that response to questions about their media uses and remembering practices.

The mnemonic imagination is the active means by which we grasp these relations and allow them to inform each other, so enriching our understanding of broader processes of change and broader patterns of continuity. In devising the concept of mnemonic imagination in order to develop what we have called a sociological aesthetics of remembering, the intention is both to show the creative dimensions of memory and bring these into encounter with an ethics of remembering. For us the aesthetics and ethics of remembering inform the ways in which the mnemonic imagination takes us beyond our own experiential horizon and into contact with the past experience of others, as well as with the longer-term historical narrative to which Landsberg refers.

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