{"id":1339,"date":"2017-10-16T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2017-10-16T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:02:08","slug":"week-2-the-collection-of-heavy-metal-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/10\/16\/week-2-the-collection-of-heavy-metal-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2: The Collection of Heavy Metal Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I focused on\u00a0<em>The Collection of Heavy Metal Material\u00a0<\/em>which is the &#8220;collection of published works, archival material, and ephemera related to heavy metal music and fan culture&#8221; (The Online Archive of California). The collection features various items and artifacts relating to the heavy metal music sub-culture.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few historical narratives that can be derived from this collection including the spread of heavy metal music and its history starting in the 1960s and 1970s in Los Angeles, California. One explanation given by the archives is the deep-rooted relevance of the heavy metal music movement into Los Angeles as the acceptance of new age music and the already-established rock genre developing and growing throughout Los Angeles and spreading throughout the rest of the country. Materials in this collection are varied as zines, fliers and advertisements from concerts, and other visual imagery from the older days of heavy metal music. These sources are reflective of the need for another counter-culture movement as brand new bands were constantly forming and performing around Los Angeles and the attendance of these events was far from sparse.<\/p>\n<p>If these records were the only indication and were the only materials to summarize the heavy metal era, the movement would not be totally captured. Without the addition of individual concert-goers experiences and the current development of the heavy metal scene into the continued sub-culture for people who feel like the &#8220;other.&#8221; Sources that would need to be added would be first-person accounts of concerts, other activities besides the movement that define the genre and the current heavy metal material to add to the collection. However, I would not be sure if that would still maintain the current collection as the archive that it is, in the traditional definition of an archive. It is possible that to maintain an archive, there would be a need for &#8220;silences&#8221; and gaps in the understanding of a time period or even entire culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I focused on\u00a0The Collection of Heavy Metal Material\u00a0which is the &#8220;collection of published works, archival material, and ephemera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}