Part of pane, Remain in Light: Archival Practice for Popular Music Collections

Popular music is an evolving family of musical forms and an emerging area of archival research. Repositories focused on this area are relatively young departments found within research libraries or museums. The nature and wide public recognition of the subject matter provide archivists with unique opportunities and challenges for collecting, preserving, providing access and promoting archival materials to large audiences often unfamiliar with archives.

Featuring case studies from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives, Grateful Dead Archives, Center for Popular Music, Bowling Green State University and the Southern Folklife Collection, the panel will address collecting strategies, media preservation, adapting traditional archival processing, and exhibit development.