Curating Pop speaks to the rapidly growing interest in the study of popular music exhibitions, which has occurred alongside the increasing number of popular music museums in operation across the world. Focusing on curatorial practices and processes, this book draws on interviews with museum workers and curators from twenty museums globally, including the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, the Experience Music Project in Seattle and the PopMuseum in Prague. Through a consideration of the subjective experiences of curators involved in the exhibition of popular music in museums in a range of geographic locations, Curating Pop compares institutional practices internationally, illustrating the ways in which popular music history is presented to visitors in a wider sense.

Sarah Baker is Professor in Cultural Sociology at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (2011), Teaching Youth Studies Through Popular Culture (2014), Community Custodians of Popular Music's Past: A DIY Approach to Heritage (2017) and the editor of Redefining Mainstream Popular Music (2013), Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives (2015), Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-It-Together (2015), The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage (2018) and Remembering Popular Music's Past: Memory-Heritage-History (2019).

Lauren Istvandity is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia. She has published across popular music, heritage, and cultural studies platforms, and has two books forthcoming: The Lifetime Soundtrack: Music and Autobiographical Memory, and the co-edited collection Routledge Handbook to Popular Music History and Heritage.

Raphaël Nowak is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Griffith University Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Australia. He is a cultural sociologist and has expertise on music consumption, digital technologies, popular music heritage practices, and systems of classifications in culture. He is the author of Consuming Music in the Digital Age: Technologies, Roles, and Everyday Life (2015) and co-editor of Networked Music Cultures: Contemporary Approaches, Emerging Issues (2016).