Even Better than the Real Thing?: Tribute Bands and Authenticity

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dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NCen
dc.contributor.authorWohlfeil, Markus
dc.date.acceptance2023-03-30
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-19T15:20:22Z
dc.date.available2023-04-19T15:20:22Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-06
dc.description.abstractDespite often being dismissed as ‘clones’, tribute bands have over the past 30 years become a popular consumer culture phenomenon. This ethnographic paper explores how tribute bands seek to achieve authenticity in their truthful recreations of the original’s live performances and being judged by audiences as an authentic representation, although they are, by definition, just unaffiliated replications. We found that consumers are happy to judge a tribute band’s recreation as being authentic when a) the latter meet consumers’ personal expectations of the original, b) members of the original band publicly endorse the tribute band, i.e. by joining them on stage, and c) the tribute band release their own songs.en
dc.funderNo external funderen
dc.identifier.citationWohlfeil, M. (2023) Even Better than the Real Thing?: Tribute Bands and Authenticity. Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Annual Conference 2023 at the University of Birmingham, July 3rd-6th, 2023, Birmingham/UK: Academy of Marketing,en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/22715
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherAcademy of Marketingen
dc.researchinstituteCentre for Enterprise and Innovation (CEI)en
dc.subjectTribute bandsen
dc.subjectauthenticityen
dc.subjectauthentic representationen
dc.subjectfaithful recreationen
dc.subjectexperienced authenticityen
dc.subjectmusic businessen
dc.subjectretro-brandingen
dc.subjectretro-marketingen
dc.subjectnostalgiaen
dc.subjectcontagionen
dc.subjectcuratorshipen
dc.titleEven Better than the Real Thing?: Tribute Bands and Authenticityen
dc.typeConferenceen

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