Afropop Worldwide & Electric Jive

Authors

  • Jez Collins Birmingham City University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.29615

Keywords:

African popular music, cultural heritage, music archives, archival activists, independent and community-led archives

Abstract

Afropop Worldwide: http://www.afropop.org

Electric Jive: http://electricjive.blogspot.co.uk

Author Biography

  • Jez Collins, Birmingham City University

    Jez Collins is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Media and Cultural Research at Birmingham City University where he researches the role of popular music and cultural heritage. He is interested in the role popular music plays in the manifestation of individual and collective identity formed through individual and collective memory practices particularly in the online environment. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool where he is researching the role of individuals and communities who participate in the online activist archiving of popular music's past and what, if any, new insights these practices are bringing to the cultural, social and political understanding of the role of popular music and place.

References

Baker, Sarah and Jez Collins. 2015. “Sustaining Popular Music’s Material Culture in Community Archives and Museums”. International Journal of Heritage Studies 21/10: 983–96. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13527258.2015.1041414

Collins, Jez. 2015. “Doing-It-Together: Public History-making and Activist Archivism in Online Popular Music Archives”. In Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together, ed. Sarah Baker, 77–90. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Collins, Jez and Oliver Carter. 2015. “‘They’re not pirates, they’re archivists’: The Role of Fans as Curators and Archivists of Popular Culture Heritage”. In Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together, ed. Sarah Baker, 126–38. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Flinn, Andrew. 2011. “Archival Activism: Independent and Community-led Archives, Radical Public History and the Heritage Professions”. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 7/2: 1–20. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pt2490x

Leonard, Marion. 2007. “Constructing Histories through Material Culture: Popular Music, Museums and Collecting”. Popular Music History 2/2: 147–67. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v2i2.147

Pelofsky, Jeremy. 2012. “U.S. Accuses Megaupload of Copyright Infringement”. Reuters US Edition, Washington. www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/19/us-usa-crime-piracy-idUSTRE80I24220120119 (accessed 2 September 2013).

Roberts, Lez and Sara Cohen. 2014. “Unauthorising Popular Music Heritage: Outline of a Critical Framework”. International Journal of Heritage Studies 20/3: 241–61 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2012.750619

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Published

2017-06-02

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Heritage and History

License

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How to Cite

Collins, J. (2017). Afropop Worldwide & Electric Jive. Journal of World Popular Music, 4(1), 110-115. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.29615