Table of Contents

Contents: Julie Andsager: In Memoriam – Joli Jensen: Introduction - On Fandom, Celebrity, and Mediation: Posthumous Possibilities – Steve Jones: Better Off Dead: Or, Making It the Hard Way – Julie L. Andsager: Altared Sites: Celebrity Webshrines as Shared Mourning – Van M. Cagle: Flaunting It: Style, Identity, and the Social Construction of Elvis Fandom – Erika Doss: «Elvis Forever» – Mary C. Beltrán: Commemoration as Crossover: «Remembering» Selena – Peggy J. Bowers/Stephanie Houston Grey: The Hagiographic Impulse Anorexia in the Public Memory of a Pop Star – Joli Jensen: Posthumous Patsy Clines: Constructions of Identity in Hillbilly Heaven – George Kamberelis/Greg Dimitriadis: Collectively Remembering Tupac: The Narrative Mediation of Current Events, Cultural Histories, and Social Identities – Janne Mäkelä: Who Owns Him? : The Debate on John Lennon – John J. Pauly: Taming the Wildest: What We’ve Made of Louis Prima – Eric W. Rothenbuhler: The Strange Career of Robert Johnson’s Records – Marko Aho: A Career in Music: From Obscurity to Immortality – Jonathan Sterne: Dead Rock Stars 1900 – Steve Jones: Echo Homo.