Film and History: An Interview with Janet Mcbain, Curator of the Scottish Film Archive

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-104
Keyword(s):  
Outstanding Contribution ◽  
Historical Preservation ◽  
Film And Television

In November 2006, Janet McBain was awarded a Scottish Bafta by the Scottish section of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, for ‘outstanding contribution to film in Scotland’. Janet has been the archivist since its foundation in 1976. Here, she talks with the editor about her archive and her own contribution to the development of historical preservation and research into film in Scotland.

Introduction

Popular Music ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
David Horn
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
International Association ◽  
Outstanding Contribution ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Vernacular Music ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up

This issue of Popular Music is produced in honour of Paul Oliver, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to popular music scholarship.Paul was a member of the original Editorial Board for Popular Music when it was set up in 1980 and continued to serve as a member of that body, and subsequently of the Editorial Group, until 1990. He was also a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and has maintained a keen interest in the organisation, continuing to attend, and speak at, its international conferences. His vision of both the potential and the needs of the Association as a global network lay behind his proposal in 1985 that a project be undertaken to compile a worldwide encyclopedia of popular music, an idea which subsequently bore fruit in EPMOW (The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World). All these achievements are worth celebrating in themselves, but it is Paul's outstanding contribution to scholarship in the area of vernacular – particularly African-American vernacular – music that we wish to honour with this issue.

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