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| Id | 204 | |
| Author | Leonard, M., | |
| Title | Exhibiting Popular Music: Museum Audiences, Inclusion and Social History | |
| Reference | Leonard, M. (2010) Exhibiting Popular Music: Museum Audiences, Inclusion and Social History, Journal of New Music Research, 39:2, 171-181, |
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| Link to article | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09298215.2010.494199 |
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| Abstract | In recent years the relationship between museums and their visitors has been subject to much discussion in relation to debates about the role that these institutions can play in widening participation and tackling social exclusion. Focussing on the display and representation of popular music in UK museums, this article considers the way in which popular music and its related material culture has been displayed, interpreted, valued and mobilized for museum audiences. One particular exhibition, The Beat Goes On, will be examined as a case study through which to explore the issue of popular music and museum audiences in more detail. The article addresses specific issues relating to the representation of music and music culture in the museum context. It explores how social history is constructed by museum professionals and how visitors interpret the material within an exhibition drawing on personal and collective memory. On the one hand, the case study exhibition sought to reflect the ways in which people engage with and experience popular music. On the other hand, the exhibition was necessarily informed by existing research about how visitors negotiate exhibition content and gallery spaces. Drawing on visitor feedback, gallery observation visits and formal evaluation, the article will examine the challenges of effectively communicating concepts and themes around music within an exhibition. |
In recent years the relationship between museums and their visitors has been subject to much discussion in relation to debates about the role that these institutions can play in widening participation and tackling social exclusion. the discussion will now focus on a particular case study exhibition in order to tease out the issues of how museum audiences are conceptualized and addressed and to reect on the ways in which popular music audiences can be understood as highly active in the processes of interpretation expertise and collection normally thought of as the preserve of the museum institution. in development discussions for the beat goes on exhibition in liverpool museum sta emphasized that the subject matter provided a key opportunity to attract new and hard to reach audiences. the ways in which they interact with the displays selecting from the available information and materials forms part of this production. argues in relation to art displays viewers use of personal memory and cultural history to interpret works of art enables the performance of their subjectivities the acting out of private content that challenges the public historical assumptions of museum culture.
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