TY - JOUR
T1 - Celebrating nostalgia or critiquing naivety: Reading pop music reunions through discourses of the fan life course
AU - Driessen, Simone
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - This study explores how fans give meaning to pop music reunions through the lens of the life course. It does so through a content analysis of forum comments about TV series The Big Reunion, which reunites chart-topping music acts from the past decades. The fans interpret The Big Reunion in three modes closely related to their life-course position: first, now young adults, the fans read the reunion as a nostalgic phenomenon. Second, they consider the reunion as an ironic event. Third, they question The Big Reunion’s formula by reflecting on it through the prism of their current position in the life course. These readings reveal how the fans celebrate a nostalgic reflection on the pop acts of their youth; yet also offer a critique on their former, ‘naïve’ teenage/child-selves.
AB - This study explores how fans give meaning to pop music reunions through the lens of the life course. It does so through a content analysis of forum comments about TV series The Big Reunion, which reunites chart-topping music acts from the past decades. The fans interpret The Big Reunion in three modes closely related to their life-course position: first, now young adults, the fans read the reunion as a nostalgic phenomenon. Second, they consider the reunion as an ironic event. Third, they question The Big Reunion’s formula by reflecting on it through the prism of their current position in the life course. These readings reveal how the fans celebrate a nostalgic reflection on the pop acts of their youth; yet also offer a critique on their former, ‘naïve’ teenage/child-selves.
UR - https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/jfs/2019/00000007/00000002/art00004
U2 - 10.1386/jfs.7.2.133_1
DO - 10.1386/jfs.7.2.133_1
M3 - Article
SN - 2046-6692
VL - 7
SP - 133
EP - 150
JO - The Journal of Fandom Studies
JF - The Journal of Fandom Studies
IS - 2
ER -