[HN Gopher] Largest punk archive to find new home at MTSU's Cent...
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Largest punk archive to find new home at MTSU's Center for Popular
Music
Author : gnabgib
Score : 78 points
Date : 2025-06-02 22:29 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (mtsunews.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (mtsunews.com)
| earino wrote:
| As a proud graduate of MTSU's CS department, I'm so happy to see
| my school listed here. Even back in the 1990s when I attended
| there, everyone knew the recording industry program was something
| special. For a small to medium town, Murfreesboro had an
| incredible music scene.
|
| I loved getting my bachelor's degree there. Best 9 years of my
| life :-D
| paul7986 wrote:
| Proud RIM (Recording Industry Major) Major here of 2001; cool
| to see MTSU mentioned on HN. It was a super fun degree and
| looks to be even more fun as they now offer a complete
| songwriting concentration to study in. It was either Music
| Business or Audio Engineering when i went.
| dentaku81 wrote:
| MIS Graduate. Crazy to think that stuff I listend to while
| working in the computer lab is now in the school's archive.
| james_marks wrote:
| How bizarre to think that when I was mailing records to MRR for
| review in the 90's, I was also nominating them for inclusion in
| an archive of punk.
|
| Life is strange, and I'm glad librarians and archivists exist.
| RyJones wrote:
| Neat. I found a pen pal via MRR - lost touch for 30 years, found
| him a couple years ago, exchanging post cards now.
|
| I digitized one of the VHS tapes we traded; presented for your
| enjoyment.
| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOgT48pM4GcsfPMvrDEUW...
| tosser0001 wrote:
| I'm glad to see this material has a home, but I'm curious why it
| didn't end up at some institution in the Bay Area close to MMR's
| home
| silisili wrote:
| MTSU has a rather well known recording industry department,
| probably driven by the fact it's located in a suburb of
| Nashville, itself called 'Music City.'
|
| While definitely not traditionally known for punk, I don't
| think it's a bad choice.
| petetnt wrote:
| The MRR archive is probably the single most important collection
| in the field of punk music and I am glad that it has found a
| (hopefully) permanently safe home. Would be amazing if Center for
| Popular Music would digitize the materials - with the green tape
| and all - and index it for the public.
|
| There's so many things there that nobody has probably seen or
| heard in decades, not to mention letters, notes and other
| additions along side records and flyers.
|
| Also it's a fuzzy feeling to imagine one of my recordings is now
| laying around in a box in MTSU, waiting for someone to discover
| it possibly decades after.
|
| Support your local libraries and archives and all the librarians
| and archivists!
| genewitch wrote:
| I'm gunna plug my friend's site, that he's been running since the
| naughties on roughly the equivalent of three pieces of gum and
| some bailing wire with a PATA drive alligator clipped in. He does
| interviews and the like - even has a DVD! Probably has a similar
| archive of music - probably more bootlegs / ID, though.
|
| my understanding is, if you're in to punk...
| https://www.punkrockdemo.com/
|
| re:
|
| > "We want people to realize that in one fell swoop, the Center
| for Popular Music is going to be the new epicenter of punk-
| related research," Reish told California media outlet SFGate.com.
|
| p.s. the site probably runs on BSD. 99.999% probability. also i
| just discovered there's a podcast and live programming. This is
| actually cooler than i thought when i thought to link it...
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