TY - JOUR
T1 - Historical records, national constructions
T2 - the contemporary popular music archive
AU - Baker, Sarah
AU - Doyle, Peter
AU - Homan, Shane
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - This article examines the contemporary role of archives in relation to the curation and preservation of popular music artifacts, drawing upon interviews with a range of archival institutions and popular music curators in several countries. It explores the current technological, financial, and aesthetic challenges facing curators and archivists in the era of digital abundance. Previous strategies of "collecting everything" are being revised, with more recent strategies of selective narratives of particular national significance. This in turn presents further challenges for institutions that wish to adopt more playful and innovative uses of their material, particularly as pressures mount from the state to increase user/visitor numbers. The article also explores how "the national" is configured in these forms and presentations of popular music and cultural memory, and where archives are situated between the music industries, the state, and popular music fan communities.
AB - This article examines the contemporary role of archives in relation to the curation and preservation of popular music artifacts, drawing upon interviews with a range of archival institutions and popular music curators in several countries. It explores the current technological, financial, and aesthetic challenges facing curators and archivists in the era of digital abundance. Previous strategies of "collecting everything" are being revised, with more recent strategies of selective narratives of particular national significance. This in turn presents further challenges for institutions that wish to adopt more playful and innovative uses of their material, particularly as pressures mount from the state to increase user/visitor numbers. The article also explores how "the national" is configured in these forms and presentations of popular music and cultural memory, and where archives are situated between the music industries, the state, and popular music fan communities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84939123788&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP1092910
U2 - 10.1080/03007766.2015.1061336
DO - 10.1080/03007766.2015.1061336
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84939123788
SN - 0300-7766
VL - 39
SP - 8
EP - 27
JO - Popular Music and Society
JF - Popular Music and Society
IS - 1
ER -