[nfbmi-talk] FW: Archives of Michigan partners to preserve sounds of Michigan

Fri Jul 15 15:16:30 UTC 2016

Hello,

The state archives is developing a project to preserve Michigan music and
musicians.  Below is a description of the project.  I sure hope some of you
can participate.  When I think of some of our community who have passed, I
am sorry they were not preserved in sound for future generations.

NFB and others have many songs which deserve preservation.  As anyone will
attest, I am not the one to do music, but I know a lot of you who are
great.I could name a bunch of MSB and NFB musicians who certainly deserve
preservation.  I hope someone will respond and contribute some of how blind
musicians have had a positive influence in our state.

Warmest Regards,

Fred

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Hundreds of Michigan musicians have been recorded so far.

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Archives of Michigan News

July 14, 2016

Contact: Mark Harvey <mailto:harveym at michigan.gov> , 517-373-1415

Archives of Michigan partners to preserve the sounds of Michigan

The staff at the Archives of Michigan is humming a new tune after partnering
with Matt Jones and his River Street Anthology project. Jones, a
professional musician, began the project in 2015 with the purpose of getting
Ypsilanti-area musicians to practice and collaborate together. It quickly
grew into something quite different. 

Since March 2015, Jones has recorded hundreds of Michigan musicians from all
over the state. 

"I'm obsessed with history. I'm obsessed with preservation," he said. "It's
so important that things like this never die out. All of us songwriters and
bands, we can't just - poof - disappear. I need to keep everybody on the
books." 

Jones' rules are one song, one microphone, one take. With this framework, he
has set out to record and preserve the diversity of music in Michigan.
Getting musicians to show up at a recording event is a grass-roots effort,
as Jones uses only contacts from Michigan's music scene and word-of-mouth.

"Most people come in and they don't know what to expect, but they have their
song and they're ready to play it, and they lay it down," Jones said.

State Archivist Mark Harvey said the project is a unique partnership for the
Archives of Michigan. 

"Archiving an ongoing documentation project puts the Archives in the
position of preserving history as it is being made," said Harvey. "Matt has
created a first in our state's history. It's not just one genre of music; he
wants to cover it all. He's Michigan's Alan Lomax." 

The Archives will save the entire project with its Preservica digital
archive and assist Jones in his documentation project.

For Jones, the River Street Anthology has been a learning experience about
diversity and connectedness.

"The most important thing I have learned in the last year and a half is that
music, performed by a vast variety of different people, from different
neighborhoods in different cities ... music is one hugely effective way in
which we all hang onto each other," he said. "I need that diverse array of
voices, and the relationships that bind them together, to be preserved so
that we don't forget that we are all bound up together."

On the road in the Upper Peninsula

The River Street Anthology crew will be on the road again at the end of July
recording at Farm Block Fest in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. There is an
existing Facebook page for the River Street Anthology
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The Archives of Michigan is part of the Michigan History Center and home to
over 120 million historical records. The Archives is open for public
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Saturday. There are over 2 million records available for public research
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