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Last updated:
April 24, 2008

Archives Week 2008 Topic

"Archives City Limits" - Music and Pop Culture Archives:

In August, 2009, hundreds of archivists will arrive in Austin for the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists greeted by signs declaring Austin the "Live Music Capitol of the World." By pursuing an Archives Week focused on music and popular culture in archives, we will be able to highlight Austin's two greatest assets – our music scene, and UT's #1 ranked Archives program! "Archives City Limits" would explore an aspect of archival repositories not frequently remembered in the publicity efforts of the archives community. This theme has the potential to go beyond the bounds of recorded music and touch on related aspects, such as liner notes, ephemera, moving image, and the papers of prominent figures in music, popular art, or even fashion. We would be able to draw speakers from places like the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Seattle Experience Music Project, our great repositories right here at UT, and the Austin music scene itself. Archives week was first conceived as a way to reach out beyond our small community of iSchool archivists and inform the public at large about our profession. "Archives City Limits" would produce events with a wide range of topics that would interest the Austin music community, and even reach out to undergraduate students and others who might not otherwise learn about our profession or our program. Potential cross-programming with the Radio, Television, Film department and the School of Music would increase our visibility across campus and beyond our usual associations with history and political science. A popular culture theme would also come complete with a wealth of sources for creative publicity and exciting fundraising events.