Abstract
This chapter explores the expanding range of community archiving activity
concerned with the preservation of cultures, experiences and memories
associated with popular music. Engendered by forms as disparate as jazz,
rock, soul or country music, such is the variety of this field that a similarly
expanding scholarly literature has emerged as a means of mapping and
understanding its meanings and significance. While much of this activity
takes a familiar physical form (Baker, 2017), here we explore the ways in
which the digital enables the extension of such activity. In further
democratising the nature of historical work and the archive, online practice
is also suggestive of how popular pleasures are subject to a form of cultural
justice, a concept which frames this chapter.
concerned with the preservation of cultures, experiences and memories
associated with popular music. Engendered by forms as disparate as jazz,
rock, soul or country music, such is the variety of this field that a similarly
expanding scholarly literature has emerged as a means of mapping and
understanding its meanings and significance. While much of this activity
takes a familiar physical form (Baker, 2017), here we explore the ways in
which the digital enables the extension of such activity. In further
democratising the nature of historical work and the archive, online practice
is also suggestive of how popular pleasures are subject to a form of cultural
justice, a concept which frames this chapter.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Community Archives, Community Spaces |
| Subtitle of host publication | Heritage, memory and identity |
| Editors | Jeanette Bastian, Andrew Flinn |
| Place of Publication | London UK |
| Publisher | Facet Publishing |
| Chapter | 6 |
| Pages | 97-112 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781783303526 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781783303519, 9781783303502 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Archives
- Popular Music
- Heritage Studies
- Memory sites
- Identity