Les Roberts

Bio: Les Roberts is an academic researcher from University of Liverpool. The author has contributed to research in topics: Popular music & Cultural heritage. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 57 publications receiving 738 citations.

Unauthorising popular music heritage: outline of a critical framework

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to set out a critical and analytical framework with which to explore the ways in which popular music heritage in the UK (or in England more specifically) is variously understood, discussed, critiqued, practised or performed Developed as part of a large-scale European project examining popular music, cultural heritage and cultural memory, our analysis is based on qualitative studies of popular music heritage discourses that reflect a broad cross section of sectors, institutions and industries Adapting Smith’s concept of authorised heritage discourse, we propose a three-way analytical framework that theoretically and methodologically foregrounds those practices and processes of authorisation that variously ascribe music heritage discourses with value, legitimacy and social and cultural capital Focusing our discussion on the example of music heritage plaques, we identify three categories of heritage discourse: (1) official authorised popular music heritage, (2) self-authorised

Liminal Landscapes : Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

Abstract: 1. Introduction: Re-Mapping Liminality Part 1: Navigating Liminality: Theory, Method Strategy 2. Revisiting Liminality: The Danger of Empty Spaces 3. Places Remember Events: Towards an Ethics of Encounter 4. Border Crossings: Practices for Beating the Bounds Part 2: Gleaning and Liminality: Edgelands, Wetlands, Estuaries 5. Walking the Edges: Towards a Visual Ethnography of Beachscapes 6. The Dynamics of Liminality in Estonian Mires 7. The Sands of Dee: Estuarine Excursions in Liminal Space Part 3: Urban Liminalities: Ritual, Poesis, Experience 8. Spinning Lhasa: Ritual Circumambulation Routes as Liminal Urbanscapes in China's 'Western Treasure-House' 9. Urban Exploration as Adventure Tourism: Journeying Beyond the Everyday 10. Another Place or Just Another Space? Liminality and Crosby Beach Part 4: Liminality and Nation: Marginality, Negotiation, Contestation 11. Shifting Borders and Dangerous Liminalities: The Case of Rye Bay 12. 'Danger Zones': The British 'Road Movie' and the Liminal Landscape 13. Threat and Suffering: The Liminal Space of 'The Jungle' 14. Shards in the Landscape: The Dispersed Liminality of Contemporary Slaveries in the UK 15. Afterword

Landscapes in the frame: exploring the hinterlands of the British procedural drama

Abstract: In the wake of the much discussed phenomenon of so-called ‘Nordic Noir’, the significance of landscape in relation to the police procedural has had something of a small-screen renaissance. In this paper, I discuss this with specific reference to recent productions set and filmed in Britain. Broadchurch (ITV, 2013–present) shot in West Dorset, Southcliffe (Channel 4, 2013) filmed in and around Faversham and the North Kent marshes, and Y Gwyll/Hinterland (S4C/BBC, 2013) filmed in and around the Welsh coastal resort of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, all share something of a ‘post-Nordic-noir’ family resemblance insofar as landscape and location are themselves presented as central characters, prompting reflection on what these narratives reveal about ideas of place and the role of topography and landscape in the cultural imaginary of the British procedural drama.

Talkin bout my generation: popular music and the culture of heritage

Abstract: Raymond Williams once remarked that ‘Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language’ (1983). He never said what the other ones were but had he been writing today, one of these might well have been ‘heritage’. Indeed, the imbrications of ‘culture’ and ‘heritage’, and the vexed nature of their relationship, particularly with regard to popular music, are such that each has come to serve as a synonym for the other in the wider sociocultural imaginary. This paper casts a critical spotlight on discourses of cultural heritage in the UK by questioning what makes popular music culture ‘heritage’ and considering the extent to which the UK popular music has become increasingly heritagised. Relating the specific example of popular music to wider debates on cultural heritage and heritagisation, the paper calls for greater problematising of discourses of popular music as cultural heritage, and considers, by way of conclusion, how a critical focus on the lived, performative and ‘haunto...

Mapping cultures : place, practice, performance

Abstract: Acknowledgements Mapping Cultures - a Spatial Anthropology L.Roberts PART I: PLACE/TEXT/TOPOGRAPHY Critical Literary Cartography: Text, Maps and a Coleridge Notebook D.Cooper Mapping Rohmer: Cinematic Cartography in Post-war Paris R.Misek Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film L.Roberts Walking, Witnessing, Mapping: An Interview with Iain Sinclair D.Cooper & L.Roberts Maps, Memories and Manchester: the Cartographic Imagination of the Hidden Networks of the Hydraulic City M.Dodge & C.Perkins PART II: PERFORMANCE/MEMORY/LOCATION Urban Musicscapes: Mapping Music-making in Liverpool S.Cohen Mapping the Soundscapes of Popular Music Heritage P.Long & J.Collins Walking Through Time: Use of Locative Media to Explore Historical Maps C.Speed Salford 7/ District Six. The Use of Participatory Mapping and Material Artefacts in Cultural Memory Projects L.Cassidy PART III: PRACTICE/APPARATUS/CARTOGRAPHICS 'Spatial Stories': Maps and the Marketing of the Urban Experience G.Warnaby Mapping My Way: Map-making and Analysis in Participant Observation H.Andrews Mental Maps and Spatial Perceptions: The Fragmentation of Israel-Palestine E.Ben Ze'ev Peripatetic Box and Personal Mapping: From Studio to Classroom to City S.Moro The Anthropology of Cartography D.Wood Bibliography Index

The Production of Space

Abstract: ‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The archaeology of knowledge

Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The Practice Of Everyday Life

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