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| Id | 544 | |
| Author | Cantillon Z., Baker S. | |
| Title | DIY Heritage Institutions as Third Places: Caring, Community and Wellbeing Among Volunteers at the Australian Jazz Museum | |
| Reference | Cantillon Z., Baker S.; DIY Heritage Institutions as Third Places: Caring, Community and Wellbeing Among Volunteers at the Australian Jazz Museum ;Leisure Sciences vol: issue: page: |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057615737&doi=10.1080%2f01490400.2018.1518173&partnerID=40&md5=853502b2f9ea65e2dfbb99241194b659 |
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| Abstract | Community-based, do-it-yourself (DIY) archives and museums of popular music are cultural institutions that can serve important social and affective functions. In this article, we examine how DIY heritage institutions create a sense of community and promote wellbeing for their volunteers, operating as informal gathering spaces, or “third places.” Using the Australian Jazz Museum — a DIY popular music heritage institution run exclusively by volunteers, most of whom are older adults and retirees — as a case study, we explore how third place can manifest in such sites of serious leisure. Drawing on interview data, we discuss volunteers’ experiences of the AJM in relation to its sociality and affective atmosphere and the role this institution plays in their lives. In doing so, we analyse the characteristics which contribute to DIY heritage institutions as spaces for caring, community, and wellbeing. © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. |
Community-based, do-it-yourself archives and museums of popular music are cultural institutions that can serve important social and affective functions. Using the Australian Jazz Museum a DIY popular music heritage institution run exclusively by volunteers, most of whom are older adults and retirees as a case study, we explore how third place can manifest in such sites of serious leisure. In this article we make a similar argument highlighting the ways in which the AJM shares similarities with but also differs from Oldenburgs understanding of third place. As a third place the AJM provides retirees the means for keeping in touch with others and continuing to enjoy the life of the community. Volunteering in a DIY heritage institution like the AJM also provides an opportunity for a meaningful retirement by way of the contributions that can be made to the preservation of jazz musics material past: these volunteers understand their work to be of value to the institution but they also recognise the value the institution provides to them in the sense of the supportive community it fosters.
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