‘The most awkward building in England’? The ‘Rotten’ heritage of ‘Tin Pan Alley’ revisited

  • Graves-Brown P
  • Schofield J
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Abstract

How should we identify, protect and preserve contemporary heritage? Five years ago, comparisons in an Antiquity paper between the ‘simulations of scenes’ drawn on the wall of 6 Denmark Street by John Lydon, during Sex Pistols rehearsals in the 1970s, and the Palaeolithic cave art of Lascaux provoked a strong response. Less contentious was the recent listing of the building, bringing its punk artworks under statutory protection. In this follow-up to their earlier article, the authors review the initial reaction from the media, the public and the artist himself, and consider how attitudes may have shifted. They also offer a novel, ‘punk’-informed approach to the management of cultural heritage.

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Graves-Brown, P., & Schofield, J. (2016). ‘The most awkward building in England’? The ‘Rotten’ heritage of ‘Tin Pan Alley’ revisited. Antiquity, 90(354), 1629–1642. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.217

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