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Popular Music, Popular Myth and Cultural Heritage in Cleveland

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Emerald Studies in Popular Music and Place

Series Editors:

Brett Lashua, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Stephen Wagg, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Studies of the relations between popular music and place offer rich conceptual and empirical terrain. This interdisciplinary book series publishes research on popular music and its geo-spatial relations by scholars working in the wider disciplines and subject fields of popular music studies, cultural geography, cultural studies, sociology, urban studies, youth studies, leisure studies, and beyond.

Titles in the series focus not only on specific cities, but also rural and suburban places, alternative or marginal spaces, online spaces, and other music geographies, for example, histories of vanished or erased places, music tourist attractions, thanatological spaces (e.g., cemeteries and other memorializations for deceased musicians), music museums, and so on. The series promotes work by scholars interested in popular music, place and space, cultural identities, globalization, history, and cultural heritage. In turn, the book series offers a critical space for scholars to theorize about the changing place of popular music where it is encountered, enjoyed, and contested.

If you are interested in publishing in this series please contact the series editors at B.Lashua@leedsbeckett.ac.uk and S.Wagg@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

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Popular Music, Popular Myth and Cultural Heritage in Cleveland: The Moondog, The Buzzard, and the Battle for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Brett Lashua

Leeds Beckett University, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2019

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Contents

About the Author

Brett Lashua is Reader in Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University. He previously held academic posts at the University of Liverpool’s Institute for Popular Music and with Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences. He earned his PhD from the University of Alberta, where he collaboratively designed and delivered Edmonton’s The Beat of Boyle Street community youth music program. He received his undergraduate degree in History and a Master’s degree in Youth Recreation, both from Kent State University. Before his academic career, Brett was a drummer with a number of bands performing in the northeast Ohio area.

Acknowledgments

The primary research for this book was supported by a fellowship through Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Popular Music Studies (CPMS) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives. I am grateful to Professor Daniel Goldmark at CPMS and the brilliant archivists at the Rock Hall: Jennie Thomas, Andy Leach, Jona Whipple, Anastacia Karel, Sule Holder, Shannon Erb, and William Jackson.

Particular thanks must go to the musicians that I have had the privilege to work with across the years. These are too many to name, but first and foremost will always be my rock ‘n’ roll brother, Derek Lashua. Special thanks go to Greg Golya, Joe Minadeo, Mandy Lascko, Jack Randall, Brian Jaykell, Krista Tortora, Alison Scola, Matt Fry, Jeff Hair, the amazing Sterle brothers, Shawn Hackel, Ian Shipley, Tim Dralle, Bill McConnell, Robert Mason, Jeff Miller, Dan “The Moon” Page, Dejay Hayn, Yaw Owusu, Kofi Owusu, Phil Smith, and CJ and Mike Szuter. There was also the band that should have been: Jen Golya, Cheryl Zivich, and Andi Mendise – thanks for being wonderful friends.

I am also indebted to a number of stellar academic colleagues, especially Karen Fox, Karl Spracklen, Stephen Wagg, Simon Baker, Paul Thompson, Sara Cohen, John Schofield, Mary Parr, Erin Sharpe, Tom Hall, and Amanda Coffey. Thanks for your enriching contributions to my academic life and beyond. Appreciation is also due to Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, where I held a Visiting Scholar’s position with the Academy for Leisure in the autumn of 2018; this allowed much appreciated time and space to finish writing this book.

Philippa Grand at Emerald Publishing was kind enough to meet, discuss, and support the idea of this book – thank you.

Last and most important, everything to Debra and Alice: the best band I have ever been in.

Acknowledgment of Sources

Some of the content within the chapters that follow, mainly in Chapter 3 related to Cleveland during the early 1950s, was developed into a chapter “Cleveland: Where rock began to roll?” I wrote for a collection I co-edited with Stephen Wagg, Karl Spracklen, and M. Selim Yavuz, Sounds and the City: Volume 2, published by Palgrave Macmillan (2019). Reproduced with permission of The Licensor through Copyright Clearance Centre, RightsLink.

Additional content, particularly for Chapter 6 on popular music heritage, was developed into a chapter “Popular Music Heritage and Tourism” I contributed to The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage (2018), edited by Sarah Baker, Catherine Strong, Lauren Istvandity, and Zelmarie Cantillon. Reproduced with permission of The Licensor through PLSclear.