Collect - Research - Publish
Conference on the history of popular music at the Lippmann+Rau Music Archive Eisenach
The history of popular music will be the focus of a conference on January 27 and 28, 2023, at the Lippmann+Rau Music Archive in Eisenach. The conference marks the conclusion of a phase of indexing the archive and digitizing selected archive holdings funded by the Thuringian State Chancellery.
The event will take place in the Jazzkeller Eisenach (Palmental 1) and is organized by the Lippmann+Rau Foundation Eisenach and the Department of Musicology Weimar-Jena of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and the FSU Jena. In charge on the Weimar side is Prof. Dr. Martin Pfleiderer, professor for the history of jazz and popular music.
The interdisciplinary conference "Popular Music and its History: Collecting - Researching - Publishing" deals with the reception history of popular music in the FRG and the GDR. The lectures and discussions will be devoted to collectors and research institutions in East and West and to current research work in the Lippmann+Rau Music Archive.
The renowned jazz and rock publicist Siegfried Schmidt-Joos will report on his work on the rock encyclopedia first published in 1973. In addition, a roundtable discussion will focus on the important cultural work of jazz clubs in the GDR.
Popular music has a diverse and rich history. In the course of the 20th century, jazz, rock and pop have become musical traditions that are played and heard, collected and researched worldwide. Collectors, researchers, and publicists have worked together to preserve and keep alive the history of popular music.
Private collectors as well as music journalists and scholars have collected countless pieces of information on the history of popular music and have evaluated and prepared them in their publications for a larger readership and audience. Their collections and archives of records, magazines and other information form an important basis for research in music history.
More information: https://www.lippmann-rau-stiftung.de/l-r-musikarchiv/archivtagung-2023/
[5 January 2023]