Mastodawn

The music industry has remastered the same few thousand albums so many times some feel immortal.

Meanwhile the music made by hundreds of thousands of artists who built actual communities - music that shaped local culture - is, in very large quantities, gone.

New blog on the archive that doesn't exist. But should. And how we could create it.

👉 https://www.packmusic.au/blog/the-archive-that-doesnt-exist

#MusicHistory #IndependentMusic #CulturalMemory

The archive that doesn't exist — The Pack Music Co-operative

On unsigned artists, undigitised catalogues, and the particular cruelty of losing music that never got loud enough to be missed

The Pack Music Co-operative

scholar_farmer Apr 26

Today's blog post: Pandemic music was not always about remembrance. Sometimes it was about distraction: parody songs, TikTok dances, sea shanties, Boccaccio, and the long, liminal hours in the shade of crisis. Plus a Kermit the Frog reference.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#PandemicMusic #Musicology #CulturalMemory #SoundStudies #blog #research #distraction #CulturalAmnesia #Boccaccio #TikTok #parody

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Artists at Risk (AR)Apr 3

#ArtistsatRisk #AR #Perpetuum #PerpetuumMobile #FreedomofExpression #Afghanistan #TemporaryRelocation #Acting #ArtisticFreedom #CulturalMemory #Resistance #Resilience #Germany #BAP

Lawrence Nault- Stone & Signal Mar 17

"A culture that forgets its dead also forgets its future." L. Nault

#RememberingHistory #CulturalMemory #Legacy #Continuity #Wisdom

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ

Feb 27

Indigenous Communities Report Dramatic Loss Of Large Bird Species Over 80 Years

"As the global avian extinction crisis accelerates, the loss of large-bodied birds is destroying local biodiversity and ecology, and eroding the cultural memory of Indigenous Peoples."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#ExtinctionCrisis #birds #ornithology #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalMemory #Ecology #Environment #conservation https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/02/26/indigenous-communities-report-dramatic-loss-of-large-bird-species-over-80-years/

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦Feb 27

Indigenous Communities Report Dramatic Loss Of Large Bird Species Over 80 Years

"As the global avian extinction crisis accelerates, the loss of large-bodied birds is destroying local biodiversity and ecology, and eroding the cultural memory of Indigenous Peoples."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#ExtinctionCrisis #birds #ornithology #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalMemory #Ecology #Environment #conservation https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/02/26/indigenous-communities-report-dramatic-loss-of-large-bird-species-over-80-years/

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦Feb 26

Indigenous Communities Report Dramatic Loss Of Large Bird Species Over 80 Years

"As the global avian extinction crisis accelerates, the loss of large-bodied birds is destroying local biodiversity and ecology, and eroding the cultural memory of Indigenous Peoples."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#ExtinctionCrisis #birds #ornithology #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalMemory #Ecology #Environment #conservation https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/02/26/indigenous-communities-report-dramatic-loss-of-large-bird-species-over-80-years/

Protyus A. Gendher Feb 12

Naming the lineage doesn’t invent the work — it reveals what was always there.
#RelationalAnthropology #LineageWork #CulturalMemory #SurvivorLiteracy

http://survivorliteracy.com/2026/02/12/glass-ceiling-records-bts-relational-anthropology-2/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Glass Ceiling Records – BTS – Relational Anthropology

Relational Anthropology is an acknowledgment of the interconnectedness inherent in anthropology, which has traditionally explored relationships among people, culture, and environment without naming…

Survivor Literacy

Greg Urbano Jan 29

Stuckey’s Skeleton: Monuments to Velocity and Obsolescence

(This post is being modified)

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/29/stuckeys-skeleton-monuments-to-velocity-and-obsolescence/

Fllics Jan 27

Europe and China: How olive oil and Jinhua ham embody centuries of food heritage

From Andalusia in southern Spain to Zhejiang Province in east China, two traditional foodstuffs reveal how culinary heritage is shaped by land, time and regulation. Olive oil and Jinhua ham reveal that local knowledge is continuing to engage with modern production and global markets. #FoodHeritage #ChinaEurope #CulinaryTradition #LocalKnowledge #CulturalMemory #CrossingCultures…

https://fllics.com/en/video/europe-and-china-how-olive-oil-and-jinhua-ham-embody-centuries-of-food-heritage/

Europe and China: How olive oil and Jinhua ham embody centuries of food heritage

From Andalusia in southern Spain to Zhejiang Province in east China, two traditional foodstuffs reveal how culinary heritage is shaped by land, time and regulation. Olive oil and Jinhua ham reveal that local knowledge is continuing to engage with modern production and global markets. #FoodHeritage #

Fllics