Redefining Mainstream Popular Music critically examines the idea of the mainstream in and across a variety of popular music contexts. It is a collection of 17 essays, with the objective to conceptually reframe the mainstream by exploring the relationship between a variety of cultural practices, popular music styles and the context within which they emerge. It explores the nebulous and often problematic use of the term; the reactionary and oppositional articulations of those who distinguish themselves from it; the contingent and conflicting aesthetic and practical operations that the...

There is a growing awareness around the world of the pressing need to archive the material remnants of popular music so as to safeguard the national and local histories of this cultural form. Current research suggests that in the past 20 or so years there has been an expansion of DIY heritage practice, with the founding of numerous DIY popular music institutions, archives and museums around the world.

This edited collection seeks to explore the role of DIY or Pro-Am (Professional-Amateur) practitioners of popular music archiving and preservation. It looks critically at ideas...

This book examines do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to the collection, preservation, and display of popular music heritage being undertaken by volunteers in community archives, museums and halls of fame globally. DIY institutions of popular music heritage are much more than 'unofficial' versions of 'official' institutions; rather, they invoke a complex network of affect and sociality, and are sites where interested people - often enthusiasts - are able to assemble around shared goals related to the preservation of and ownership over the material histories of popular music culture. Drawing...