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This chapter investigates the question of music as a technology of memory. A practice of popular music preservation is discussed, specifically, as it is used in a number of music blogs. The bloggers collect, digitize, and archive extensive collections of music. This practice is a result of distinctly individual and intimately motivated endeavors to preserve and archive the musical past. The blogs are investigated as examples of a radical overlap between the offline materiality and the immateriality of the code. Such practices have repercussions on the level of copyright, sustainability of such preservation, and, importantly, as a tool to tell stories through music.
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Pogačar, M. (2016). Popular Music Between the Groove and the Code. In: Media Archaeologies, Micro-Archives and Storytelling. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52580-2_5
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