Music Preservation and Archiving Today

Edited by Norie Guthrie, Scott Carlson

Publication date:

20 April 2018

Length of book:

210 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

231x159mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781538102930

Here are the stories of how music archives are preserving independent music and saving a part of our cultural heritage. Music Preservation and Archiving Today moves beyond the how-to and assembles the work currently being done to preserve music and "scenes" via essays, case studies, and overviews of work by academic archives as well as communitydriven preservation projects.

Part I: Documenting Local Music Communities
Chapter 1: “Preserving Rock and Roll History on the North Coast” by Andy Leach & Jennie Thomas
Chapter 2: “Establishing a Regional Music Archives at the University of Illinois” by Rory Grennan, Katherine Nichols, and Scott W. Schwartz
Chapter 3: “Pushing the Boundaries of Donor Relations to Build the Houston Folk Music Archive” by Norie Guthrie
Chapter 4: “Building Punk and Heavy Metal Collections at UCLA Library Special Collections” by Megan Hahn Fraser and Melissa Haley

Part II: Leveraging Archival Materials
Chapter 5: “Exploring the Houston Folk Music Archive in the First-Year Classroom” by Andrew A. Klein
Chapter 6: “Mastering the Sonics of Historic Recording Media” by Jessica Thompson
Chapter 7: “Exploring the Attics of the Counterculture” by Jesse Jarnow

Part III: Outsider Music Preservation
Chapter 8: “Preserving Underground Hip Hop Tapes in Ethnographic Context” by Anthony Kwame Harrison
Chapter 9: “Pursuing Preservation in the DIY Music Community” by Norie Guthrie Scott Carlson
Chapter 10: “Preserving Music Through Reissues” by Jeremy Berg
Chapter 11: “Bootleg Compilations as Fan Preservation” by Scott Carlson

Appendix 1: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Scan Day Permission and Donation Form
Appendix 2: Indie Preserves Survey

Each essay is well documented and strongly supported with end notes and reference sources. . . . Music Preservation and Archiving Today is oriented towards those working with music, but there are many aspects of the writings contained therein which would be useful to archivists working with other media and subject matter. . . [it] does offer much information that would be useful to archivists who do not work with music, particularly with respect to collecting, outreach, preservation, and technology.