Go-Go Music Artificial Collection
Scope and Contents
This is an artificially created collection of materials related to Go-Go music and the Go-Go music community. Materials include live and studio recordings of Go-Go performances; periodicals and article clippings about Go-Go performers, music, and culture; academic works regarding Go-Go; and ephemera related to Go-Go music and performances.
Dates
- Creation: 1975 - 2022
Extent
5.5 Linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Materials in the Go-Go Collection are organized into series based on material format. Subseries are created to create further subdivisions by specific types of materials and material origin.
Series I: Periodicals
Series II: Scholarship
Series III: Ephemera
Series IV: Photographs
Series V: Audio-Visual Materials
Subseries 1: Cassettes
Subseries 2: Compact Discs
Subseries 3: LPs
Series VI: Oversized Items
Provenance
This artificial collection comprises materials acquired from multiple individual donors. The collection continues to be added to as donations are made periodically over time.
Separated Materials
The oral histoyr transcripts from Series 2, Box 2, folders 11 and 12 were seperated from this collection and places into collection 230: Kip Lornell and Charles Stephenson oral history collection.
Processing Procedure
Standard archival processing procedures were followed.
Clippings from newspapers and magazines were photocopied onto bond paper, and discarded. Original newsprint was separated from the collection. Duplicates of print materials were separated from the collection.
The collection was processed at the folder level. Items acquired and added to this collection will be placed into folders, and added to the appropriate series.
- Title
- Go-Go Music Artificial Collection
- Subtitle
- An inventory of the Go-Go Music Artificial Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Philip Espe
- Date
- 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2022-08-25: Series and subseries updated.
- 2022-08-25: Added information from the revised processing work and finding aid composition by DCPL staff member Philip Espe.
Repository Details
Part of the The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library Repository