Delaina SepkoHATII, University of Glasgow

Organising PopularMusic Recordings

“Every word immediately becomes a concept, inasmuch as it is not intended to serve as a reminder of the unique and wholly individualized original experience to which it owes its birth, but must at the same time fit innumerable, more or less similar cases – which means, strictly speaking, never equal – in other words, a lot of unequal cases. Every concept originates through equating what is unequal.”

Friedrich Nietzche“On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”p 2-3

http://academics.eckerd.edu/instructor/starkjl/jls--inactive/405/September13/Nietzsche.pdf accessed on 12 May 2011

ArchivesProvenanceOriginal OrderHierarchicalContext

LibrariesSubject-basedLibrary of CongressDewey DecimalCall numbers

Challenges for popular music recordings

ProvenanceOriginal orderGenre as subjectContext

Classification v Categorisation

“Structure is perhaps the single most important characteristic that can be used to discriminate between systems of classification and categorization because it is influenced by distinctions based on process, boundaries, membership, and criteria for assignment.”

Elin Jacob. “Classification and Categorization: A Difference that Makes a Difference.” Library Trends vol. 52 no. 3 (Winter 2004): 530.

Genre“Easy Boom”Drumagick

Context“You Got the Love”

1986 The Source feat. Candi Staton

2009 Florence and The Machine

2009 The XX

Context“Who Shot Ya?”Notorious B.I.G

“Hit Em Up”2Pac Shakur

Creator“Blame it on the Rain”

Milli Vanilli

Library of CongressAccessed 16 May

2011

Where do we go from here?

Functions of popular music

Expressing dialogue

Context + bibliographic description

Role of technology