The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library and Archives

Moody, Laura L.

doi:10.1080/10588167.2012.675832

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“…It has also focused on the inclusion of sound in museums (see Baker, Doyle, et al., 2016), on storytelling techniques and narrative engagement (see Baker, Doyle, et al., 2016; Baker et al., 2016a) and on curatorial aspects. Scholars have detailed decision‐making processes in relation to the presentation and interpretation of objects for museum visitors (Leonard, 2014; on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum in Cleveland, see Everrett, 2019; Moody, 2012) and also on how to create key museum projects (see Henke, 2009; Santelli, 1997). Other studies explored the visitor experience of music, which is mainly the subject of visitor studies (Bailey et al., 2019; Heimlich et al., 2015).…”

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“…The display of music culture often concentrates on music as a social phenomenon that can be shown through material objects (Bennett & Janssen, 2016; Bennett & Rogers, 2016; Fairchild, 2017, p. 89; Moody, 2012, p. 99). The range of material objects is broad and includes, for example, playback media and devices, ticket stubs, concert T‐shirts, posters, autographed photographs, brochures, fanzines, badges, and patches, besides having immaterial value (on “displaying musical sound as a sonic artefact,” see Cortez, 2017, p. 374; Passos Sachs, 2015).…”

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Collecting and Exhibiting Traditional and Popular Alpine Folk Music in Austria—A Case Study

Biedermann¹

2022

Curator The Museum Journal

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This paper presents a case study dedicated to a particular genre of folk music popular in the Alpine countries, and its collection and display in Austria in connection with a project in which the author was involved. The theoretical and practical questions related to this study reflect the needs and challenges posed by this topic in terms of museum documentation and communication. The aim of the paper is to expand the current discourse in the field by discussing the relationships between this genre of music as an intangible social phenomenon and as tangible cultural heritage. The paper presents the case study in an international context of discussion on the display of music culture and the role of sound in exhibitions, and connects theoretical considerations with practical approaches.

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Section: State Of Researchmentioning

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Section: State Of Researchmentioning

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Collecting and Exhibiting Traditional and Popular Alpine Folk Music in Austria—A Case Study

Biedermann¹

2022

Curator The Museum Journal

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“…The emergence of museums as spaces of popular music representation has invited critical academic reflection on multiple dimensions. Despite the body of articles published by a group of curators, educators, librarians and journalists about The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in the United States, which are specifically consecrated to describing the museum’s contents, collections, educational programs and catalogues (Barden ; Henke ; Martin ; Moody ; Santelli ), I would argue that the literature devoted to exhibiting popular music discusses its representation by focusing on one of the two aforementioned representational systems distinguished by Hall: conceptual or signifying . Discussions of a conceptual nature typically deploy concepts to approach the issue of popular music exhibitions in one of two forms: articles grasping the conceptual system of representation underlying popular music exhibitions from in‐depth interviews conducted with museum practitioners; and articles theoretically problematising the popular music heritagisation practices by bringing a concept or a set of concepts to bear on the discussion.…”

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Performatively Driven: A Genre for Signifying in Popular Music Exhibitions

Cortez¹

2019

Curator The Museum Journal

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This article explores a relatively novel field of practice, or genre, emerging in the context of museums and exhibitions of popular music and what I will refer to as performatively driven, here discussed and illustrated with examples drawn from particular international exhibitions that I have visited. This genre is comprised of a myriad of strategies used by curators to give substance to their exhibiting narratives that tends to cluster into four essential types – (i) exhibiting sound and music; (ii) dramatic strategies (for current purposes, the example of contrast is considered); (iii) enveloping strategies, and (iv) sound epistemologies – and all of which draw on combinations of multifarious exhibits (material and immaterial). In terms of their signifying potential, my analysis points to these strategies, each of them focused on imparting meaning in an experiential rather than a purely rational sense, as achieving the following ends: conveying notions of popular music as object and artifact; eliciting emotional responses and prompting engagement; valuing museumgoers’ individualities, while also locating them as part of a community (e.g., of music fans, of followers of a particular musical artist, of a particular generation); providing re‐enactment (both by reconstructing scenarios from the past or from live concerts and by activating memories offered of popular music); and conveying knowledge. As these signifying strategies dissolve into the aforementioned meanings in an experiential rather than in a more rational sense, I would suggest they are correspondingly rooted in the concept of performance and therefore propose adding this concept to the typology of concepts presented by Baker et al. (2018).

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“…Whilst this is not an easy problem for museum libraries to overcome, it is not an insurmountable one as alternative procurement options do exist, such as joining consortium purchasing schemes or entering into resource sharing partnership agreements. Moody (2012), for example, discusses how his museum library is able to benefit from access to numerous research databases via membership of a partnership agreement with a local university.…”

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Future strategic considerations and development priorities for national museum libraries

Williams

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the main strategic considerations facing the libraries of national museums over the next decade, and to examine anticipated future service and resource development priorities. Design/methodology/approach An explanatory sequential mixed-methods study was undertaken, consisting of a quantitative research phase followed by a qualitative phase. An online survey was sent to the head librarians of two hundred national museum libraries for the quantitative phase. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with the head librarians at seven national museum libraries for the qualitative phase. The survey data were analysed using descriptive statistics and the interview data were analysed through use of recursive abstraction. Mixing of the data occurred following the qualitative phase. Findings National museum libraries are facing a complex array of future challenges and opportunities as a result of a rapidly changing socio-technical landscape, evolving organisational needs and priorities and ongoing operational constraints. The main strategic considerations for many national museum libraries relate to their preparedness for these issues, and their ability to deliver services and resources that are relevant, required, and responsive to the future research needs of internal and external users. It seems likely that development priorities will focus on consolidating high impact services and resources, whilst also expanding provision into new areas that have the greatest potential for growth. Originality/value This study identifies issues of strategic importance for national museum libraries and examines the main priority areas being considered by museum librarians as they prepare to develop their libraries into the third decade of the twenty-first century.

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library and Archives

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Collecting and Exhibiting Traditional and Popular Alpine Folk Music in Austria—A Case Study

Collecting and Exhibiting Traditional and Popular Alpine Folk Music in Austria—A Case Study

Performatively Driven: A Genre for Signifying in Popular Music Exhibitions

Future strategic considerations and development priorities for national museum libraries

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