Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together (Routledge Research in Music)

Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together (Routledge Research in Music)

by SarahBaker (Editor)

Synopsis

There is a growing awareness around the world of the pressing need to archive the material remnants of popular music so as to safeguard the national and local histories of this cultural form. Current research suggests that in the past 20 or so years there has been an expansion of DIY heritage practice, with the founding of numerous DIY popular music institutions, archives and museums around the world.

This edited collection seeks to explore the role of DIY or Pro-Am (Professional-Amateur) practitioners of popular music archiving and preservation. It looks critically at ideas around DIY preservationism, self-authorised and unauthorised heritage practice and the DIY institution, while also unpacking the potentialities of bottom-up, community-based interventions into the archiving and preservation of popular music's material history. With an international scope and an interdisciplinary approach, this is an important reference for scholars of popular music, heritage studies and cultural studies.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 266
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 27 May 2015

ISBN 10: 1138781436
ISBN 13: 9781138781436

Media Reviews
Besides its obvious interest for musicology and library science students, the book contains a great number of useful tips and important considerations that will guide the task of music preservation aficionados everywhere, and includes key concepts such as reliability of digital storage formats, standards and strategies. - Neil Manel Frau-Cortes, Sonograma Magazine
Author Bio
Sarah Baker is an Associate Professor in Cultural Sociology at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.