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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2016

Paul Graves-Brown  and
John Schofield
Paul Graves-Brown
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK
John Schofield*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, UK
*
*Author for correspondence (Email: john.schofield@york.ac.uk)
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Abstract

How should we identify, protect and preserve contemporary heritage? Fiveyears 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 ofLascaux provoked a strong response. Less contentious was the recent listingof the building, bringing its punk artworks under statutory protection. Inthis follow-up to their earlier article, the authors review the initialreaction from the media, the public and the artist himself, and consider howattitudes may have shifted. They also offer a novel, ‘punk’-informedapproach to the management of cultural heritage.

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Londonpunkheritage managementgraffiticontemporary archaeology

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Antiquity , Volume 90 , Issue 354 , December 2016 , pp. 1629 - 1642
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016 

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