Community Custodians of Popular Music s Past: A DIY Approach to Heritage

Community Custodians of Popular Musics Past: A DIY Approach to Heritage This book examines DIY approaches to the collection, preservation, and display of popular music heritage by volunteers in community archives, museums, and halls of fame globally. Focusing on 23 institutions, it outlines the potentialities of bottom-up, community-based interventions into the archiving and preservation of popular musics material history. The book highlights how DIY institutions build upon national heritage strategies at the community level and have the capacity to contribute to the democratization of popular music heritage. It will appeal to a range of scholars in popular music, archive studies, museum studies, critical heritage studies, cultural sociology, and media studies. This book examines do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to the collection, preservation, and display of popular music heritage being undertaken by volunteers in community archives, museums and halls of fame globally. DIY institutions of popular music heritage are much more than ‘unofficial’ versions of ‘official’ institutions; rather, they invoke a complex network of affect and sociality, and are sites where interested people – often enthusiasts – are able to assemble around shared goals related to the preservation of and ownership over the material histories of popular music culture. Drawing on interviews and observations with founders, volunteers and heritage workers in 23 DIY institutions in Australasia, Europe and North America, the book highlights the potentialities of bottom-up, community-based interventions into the archiving and preservation of popular music’s material history. It reveals the kinds of collections being housed in these archives, how they are managed and maintained, and explores their relationship to mainstream heritage institutions. The study also considers the cultural labor of volunteers in the DIY institution, arguing that while these are places concerned with heritage management and the preservation of artefacts, they are also extensions of musical communit Autor: Sarah Baker Wydawnictwo: Taylor & Francis Rok wydania: 2017 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 210 Wymiary: 16.3 x 23.8 x 2 cm Ilustracje: 3 Tables, black and white; 27 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white Język: angielski ISBN: 9781138961203