Preserving Popular Music Heritage Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together [Hardcover]

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 musics 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.

1. Identifying Do-it-Yourself Places of Popular Music Preservation Sarah Baker  Part I: Unpacking DIY Popular Music Heritage Practice  2. The Shaping of Heritage: Collaborations between Independent Popular Music Heritage Practitioners and the Museum Sector Marion Leonard  3. Valuing Popular Music Heritage: Exploring Amateur and Fan-Based Preservation Practices in Museums and Archives in the Netherlands Amanda Brandellero, Arno van der Hoeven and Susanne Janssen  4. Affective Archiving and Collective Collecting in Do-it-Yourself Popular Music Archives and Museums Sarah Baker  5. Really Saying Something? What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Popular Music Heritage, Memory, Archives and the Digital? Paul Long  6. Doing-it-Together: Public History-Making and Activist Archiving in Online Popular Musl£&