Libraries

Field Recorders’ Collective Recording Collective

This is a private/public synthersis we want to get behind–a collective (read: record label) providing access to private collections of old timey hill music and photographs, complete with digital mastering, and so forth. But maybe we spoke too soon…

They talk a smooth game:

…the Field Recorders’ Collective hopes to “democratize” these collections and see them form a public archive. This is opposed to seeing them disappear in the “black hole” of university and government archives which are, at best, difficult to gain entrance to or at worse, only for those with credentials for accessing them. We hope you will find the FRC releases an important addition to your traditional music library.

So, a “public” archive is created through private consumption, and public archives are strawmanned as inaccessible.

Tags: americana, barftastic, folk, hillbillies, old time music, public private public