Writing
Who's Listening? Implications of Digitization on Access & Use of Archival Sound
This paper discusses how electronic access to recorded sound and resulting changes in the nature of use have altered archivists' activities in managing access to audio collections.
The Illegal Art Exhibit Online: One Side of the Copyright Conversation
Provides an overview of the Illegal Art exhibit online and examines what the organization and content of the site indicate about its community of users.
Persistence of the Zoetrope: An Animating Object
A "biography" of the 19th century optical amusement object. The paper pays particular attention to technological & historical narratives associated with the zoetrope over time, and considers the scope of rich, diverse notions it embodies.
Making Music: Alan Lomax, Mediation & the Archive
This paper considers the recordings of folklorist and musical collector Alan Lomax as archives and particularly, the problematic ways that his own carefully constructed narrative may be legitimized by the act of archiving.
'American Jazz' in Kansas City: Collective Memory & Negotiated Meaning
This piece uses the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri to explore ideas about the interplay between collective memory and the narrative set forth by cultural institution.