Fascinating. 🤓
Look Inside the World's Largest Collection of Pop Music: THE ARCHIVE
What do you do with one of the largest record collections in the world? You put the three million items in a building in lower manhattan. That is, until you're thrown out...VNT goes to see the dressing of the dead at the ARChive of Contemporary Music-- and a look at its next iteration, wherever that might be.
I was approached by the Library and Archives of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to contribute some of my video clips to the annual Home Movie Day project. You can read more about Home Movie Day below. The event was held at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and screened was a collection of local home recordings of concerts, mostly of local bands. A selection of clips of local bands I recorded were collected and several were part of this screening. It was incredibly fun to be part of this event. Check out some of my photos below.
"Home Movie Day (established 2002) is an annual event that celebrates amateur films and filmmaking. It is a worldwide event, held at local venues all over the world and organized locally by volunteers. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to have their films inspected and to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community. The event is an opportunity to discover the personal, historical, and social importance of home movies and for individuals to learn how to best care for them."
(Via Home Movie Day - Wikipedia.)
Brilliant! I’m thrilled when I can see an overlap of my profession (libraries, archives & technology), with my personal interest (music!). I want to copy this program out of the University of Tennessee Knoxville for our work here at my Library!
Also, if Count This Penny is cool enough to do this, I’ll have to check them out as well...
"Amanda and Allen Rigell (aka Count This Penny) composed two songs inspired by materials in the Wilma Dykeman and James R. Stokely Jr. Papers, which are preserved by and housed in the UT Libraries’ Special Collections department.
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Watch the video below as we follow Amanda and Allen through the archives and into the recording studio throughout the production of these songs.
To continue the Boundless: Artists in the Archives series, the UT Libraries will periodically commission a work of art or music inspired by the unique items in our Special Collections and our Betsey B. Creekmore Archives."
(Via News & Events - Libraries: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.)
