Fandom is the organized culture of devotion around an artist — its rituals, language and shared memory. Alex Warren’s fandom is distinguished by how much biography it carries: followers who watched his losses unfold online and map their own onto his songs. In this story, fandom invents its own ceremony, as fans bring cremation urns to his concerts for signing, transforming a pop audience into a community of the bereaved.
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Mentioned in: He Lost Both Parents and Found a Choir of the Bereaved: Alex Warren and the Music of Grief