Rhythm Divisions: An exploration of methods for collecting and curating British Youth Culture Heritage: music, archive, memories (1950 - 2020)

英国有着丰富的青年文化历史，这在20世纪和21世纪出现的各种青年文化和亚文化中显而易见，从现代派和朋克到污垢。这些对英国各地的不同社区具有重要的社会文化，政治和经济价值，并推动了该国创意产业的发展，这是英国经济增长最快的部门。英国青年文化过去和现在的丰富遗产正处于危险之中，它不是一个指定的遗产，一个确保文化领域得到保护的重要分类。目前，收集、保存和传播英国青年文化遗产价值的努力严重不足，特别是因为它们没有考虑到两个关键领域：青年人的声音，以及青年音乐和他们所属的亚文化。Rhythm Divisions旨在解决这种缺失和威胁。在这个以实践为基础的研究项目中，我将探索英国青年文化的历史，以及利用博物馆为基础的战略来保护其过去，现在和未来。我将通过青年文化的透镜来分析英国博物馆的藏品，以确定青年文化的对象是否隐藏在其他档案分类中。根据我30年的展览策展人经验，我将确定收集危险遗产的方法，重点是嬉皮士，泰德和污垢，并探索与年轻人策划和共同策划多感官青年文化展览的方法，有声音景观，使这一丰富的遗产得到真实的代表。我的研究将提高对青年文化的认识，作为博物馆研究的一个新的重要策展领域，并为保护濒危遗产提供一个模式。这项研究将为青年文化博物馆（MoYC）的档案和他们建造永久家园的计划提供信息。

Britain has a rich history of youth culture, evident in the diverse youth cultures and subcultures that have emerged in the 20th and 21st centuries, from mods and punks to grime. These have had significant socio-cultural, political and economic value for diverse communities across the UK and fuel the country's creative industries, the fastest growing sector in the UK economy. The rich heritage of British youth culture past and present is at risk, it is not a designated heritage, a vital classification for ensuring that a cultural realm is protected. Attempts to collect, preserve and communicate the value of British youth culture heritage are currently critically insufficient, particularly as they do not take into account two key areas: the voice of young people, and the music of the youth and subcultures they were part of. Rhythm Divisions aims to address this absence, and threat. In this practice-based research project, I will explore the history of UK youth culture, and the use of museum-based strategies to protect its past, present and future. I will analysis UK museum collections through the lens of youth culture to identify if objects of youth culture have been hidden within other archive classifications. Building on my 30 year experience as an exhibition curator, I will identify ways for collecting heritage at risk with a focus on Hippies, Teds and Grime and explore ways for curating and co curating with young people multi sensory youth culture exhibitions, with soundscapes, so that this rich heritage is authentically represented. My research will increase recognition of youth culture as a new and significant curatorial field of study in museums and provide a model for preserving heritage at risk. This research will feed into Museum of Youth Culture (MoYC) archives and their plans to build a permanent home.