Readers of the IAML (UK & Irl) blog will be pleased to learn of the Foundling Museum’s newest exhibition, highlighting some of the treasures from the collection of early Handel devotee, Elizabeth Legh (1694-1734). Katharine Hogg, Librarian of the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, has sent us the following to whet our appetites: Elizabeth Legh: Lover…
The following is a guest post from Richard L. Jones, Music Librarian, Barbican Music Library: I’m Not Okay: An Emo Retrospective is the title of Barbican Music Library’s latest exhibition, the result of a collaboration with the Museum of Youth Culture. With roots in the hardcore-punk scene in 1980s Washington D.C., emo (short for ‘emotional’ or…
Barbican Music Library’s current exhibition – From the Caribbean to Coventry: Plotting the Rise of Two Tone – is a celebration of one of the UK’s most influential musical and cultural movements. The exhibition was conceived by 2 Tone fans David Burke and Mark Baxter; they collaborated with consultants Rhoda Dakar (former lead singer of…