Realities and Visions
Lippmann+Rau Music Archive Conference on Collecting, Researching and Publishing
A conference of the Lippmann+Rau Music Archive on 24 and 25 January in the Jazzkeller of the Alte Mälzerei Eisenach will focus on collecting, researching and publishing. The University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar has been cooperating with this important archive for popular music and jazz for years – and is actively participating with professors and research associates in the public conference on the topic ‘Popular Music Archives – Realities and Visions’.
The focus is on lectures and discussions on the challenges of collecting practices in popular music archives, on experiences with academic or journalistic archival work, and on ways of publicising and making music history known. The conference will focus on jazz, music and youth cultures, and popular music in the GDR.
External guest speakers include music journalist Peter Kemper, André Doehring from the Institute for Jazz Research in Graz and Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer from the University of Oldenburg.
The conference begins with an introduction by conference chair Prof. Dr. Martin Pfleiderer from the Department of Musicology Weimar-Jena on Friday, 24 January at 2:00 pm. In a concluding panel discussion on Saturday, 25 January at 4:45 pm, representatives of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, the Deutsches Musikarchiv (German National Library Leipzig) and the Archiv der Jugendkulturen Berlin, among others, will discuss current challenges and forward-looking visions of archival practice in German-speaking countries.
Jazz, rock and pop have a diverse and rich history. Music archives are important institutions for exploring the many facets of this history. They are inconceivable without the long-standing commitment and expertise of countless collectors, researchers and publicists who provide the archives with their collections and working documents (sound recordings, magazines, personal papers, etc.).
In this context, the Eisenach conference addresses questions such as: What is the reality of archival work? How can archives and the documents collected and catalogued there help music journalists, music researchers and anyone interested in music to preserve the history and stories of jazz and popular music and keep them alive in living memory?
What challenges do they face in doing so? And what networks between interest groups, but also between volunteer-run archives and publicly funded institutions, are useful for overcoming these challenges together?
Participation in the public conference is free of charge. Please register by email at archiv(at)lippmann-rau-stiftung.de.
The detailed conference programme is available at: https://www.lippmann-rau-stiftung.de/l-r-musikarchiv/
[14 January 2025]