Abstract:
What are the practical and ethical issues involved when collecting institutions assume responsibility for documenting living cultures? Do marginalized communities have particular claims on the organization, identification and accessibility of documentations of their culture? What happens to our ability to understand and document communities when their cultural artifacts are removed from their living social contexts? How can an archive of underground music connect with and serve the community whose culture it archives, and how is its value measured? This panel will present two points of view about documenting music and performance: a perspective from Dr. Larisa Mann based in scholarship and practice from Jamaican dance music scenes, and an approach used within a special collections repository by Cornell University Library’s Hip Hop Collection.
Description:
Sponsored by The St. John’s Bible. Larisa Mann, Professor, Media Culture & Communication, NYU & Brooklyn College; Katherine Reagan, Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, Cornell University; Ben Ortiz, Assistant Curator, Hip Hop Collection, Cornell University (moderator)
