ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|148 pages
Unpacking DIY Popular Music Heritage Practice
chapter 2|12 pages
The Shaping of Heritage
chapter 3|15 pages
Valuing Popular Music Heritage
chapter 6|14 pages
Doing-it-Together
chapter 8|10 pages
“When Folk Meets Pop”
chapter 10|13 pages
“They're Not Pirates, They're Archivists”
chapter 12|14 pages
Trading Offstage Photos
part II|76 pages
Case Studies