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Despite 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. |
