Abstract
After Fame is an ethnographic account of aging and musical creativity in the everyday life of the then 90-year-old South African accordionist Nico Carstens. It consists of three parts: (1) a theoretical and methodological framing, refiguring the Western elite concept of “late style” for the study of popular music; (2) an animated and narrated digital essay, accessible online; and (3) a version adapted here for print. Based on personal conversations, a micro-geography of Carstens’s living space, analyses of annotated scores, and material from his personal archive, I speculate on his confrontation with the objects in his contained domestic milieu as a process of self-fashioning in old age.
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