Lauren Istvandity
Biographic Data
| ID | 3065803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Istvandity |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Istvandity |
| SIGNATURE | ISTVANDITY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3003-962X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Creative heritage as contemporary collecting: The role of performing arts and cultural memory in migrant heritage preservation
The creative arts have a significant, yet currently under-utilised role to play in the collection, preservation, and presentation of tangible and intangible heritage both within and beyond institutional frameworks. The emerging method of creative heritage provides a novel approach to this, inviting communities and artists to respond to heritage collections through creative practice. This article outlines the ongoing development of the method thro…
Performing cultural heritage as a method of preservation in migrant communities
Introduction: Popular music, revival and renewal: histories, cultures, practices
Back catalogue touring and the ephemeral archive: Personal memory and popular music heritage
Creative futures for cultural heritage: A typology of creative practice in the GLAM sector - towards a creative heritage approach
This article seeks to develop a non-prescriptive typology of creative practice and its role in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) institutions through an examination of published research. Highlighting key issues and perspectives on integration and intent in each approach it examines practice through five categories: (1) demonstration; (2) programmed performance; (3) historically informed creativity and performance; (4) institution…
The values and value of community heritage: Visitor evaluation of do-it-yourself museums and archives of popular music in Europe, Australasia and the United States of America
Do-it-yourself (DIY) and community-based efforts to preserve popular music heritage often take place in tangible sites open to the public. These places contrast with authorised sites of heritage in their form, but not their function, and are often judged equally by visitors in terms of cultural value. This article analyses Tripadvisor user reviews of 11 DIY institutions of popular music heritage to highlight the tension between the production of …
How does music heritage get lost? Examining cultural heritage loss in community and authorised music archives
While the mission of many community archives is often to exhaustively collect and preserve material of their topic area, it is inevitable that some heritage will not be recovered. Lost heritage impacts both public and academic communities where it results in incomplete histories, missing records and restricted access to precarious intangible and physical resources. Heritage will always get lost – but what processes lead to this? This paper outlin…
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts
This article explores issues relating to interdisciplinary work between heritage and creative practice. In particular, issues in conceptualising music heritage are raised through an example of research integrating heritage and creativity in a project aimed at highlighting jazz heritage in Queensland, Australia. The project, titled ‘Trading Fours’, was an extension of heritage research that sought to add oral histories, recorded music and ephemera…
Participatory music-making and well-being within immigrant cultural practice: Exploratory case studies in South East Queensland, Australia
Music participation is a way of life for many cultures and is an activity that is often passed on generationally. It can become especially important as a leisure activity for maintenance of self- and national identity for people who have migrated to countries of contrasting cultures, such as Australia. This article describes exploratory, qualitative research into the ways in which participatory music-making within communities from immigrant backg…
The lifetime soundtrack ‘on the move’: Music, autobiographical memory and mobilities
Music can easily become associated with many activities in everyday life, often recorded within personal memory archives, sometimes maintaining a personal meaning across the lifetime. This article convenes on the interactions between music, memory and mobilities, as it explores the recollection of musical memories that incorporate both music mobilities and corporeal mobilities related to personal travel and movement. Drawing on empirical intervie…
Curatorial practice in popular music museums: An emerging typology of structuring concepts
Museums have been central to the institutionalisation of popular music as heritage; yet, there has been little scholarly focus on the curatorial strategies behind the exhibition of popular music’s past. This article outlines an emerging typological framework of structuring concepts in curatorial practice in popular music museums. The typology brings into conversation concepts previously identified by a number of popular music museum scholars. The…
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage
As illustrated by many of the chapters in this volume, the sites and strategies now available for the preservation of popular music history and heritage are manifold. Indeed, if the steps being taken to acknowledge the importance of popular music, and in particular more contemporaneous versions of popular music and their corresponding eras of emergence and innovation, as a bonafide form of cultural heritage are in themselves significant, then equ…
Intramuros: Memory, violence and national becoming in Manila
Fort Santiago marks the site at which Spanish forces began the consolidation of the conquest of the Philippines, guarding the capital city of Manila from the 1590s. The fort, now in the heart of the Intramuros heritage precinct, was almost destroyed during the Second World War. It was gradually reconstructed in the decades that followed, and formed a centrepiece for the 1998 centennial celebrations of Philippine independence. It is now one of Man…
Musicians and the lifetime soundtrack: Creation and perception of musically motivated autobiographical memories
In addition to encountering music in everyday situations, musicians perform, compose, arrange, contemplate, and study music in a way that is integral to their everyday lives. This paper draws together ideas of autobiographical memory and musicianship via an examination of the ways in which musicians create and interpret musically triggered autobiographical memories. Using original interview narratives, the paper argues that the dual roles of prod…
Short and long term outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse (Cald) and at-risk communities in participatory music programs: A systematic review
Curating popular music heritage: Storytelling and Narrative Engagement in Popular Music Museums and Exhibitions
In parallel with a globally ageing ‘baby-boomer’ population, Western societies have seen an increase in the number of museums devoted to popular music. However, the discourse, design and display of traditional museums is at odds with the culture of popular music and its audience. This article explores how curators of ‘new museums’ of popular music harness aspects of storytelling to increase patron engagement within their exhibits. Drawing on inte…
The sound of music heritage: Curating Popular Music in Music Museums and Exhibitions
A significant amount of previous academic research into popular music museums centres on critiques of the content, design and layout of predominantly authorised institutions. Throughout much of this research, authors consistently criticise the use, or rather, the perceived misuse, of music played within music museums, arguing that the music itself, rather than artefacts, constitutes the most significant part of popular music exhibition. This arti…
They [do more than] Interrupt Us from Sadness: Exploring the impact of participatory music making on social determinants of health and wellbeing for refugees in Australia
This paper reports on the outcomes of an exploratory narrative study on the impact of participatory music making on social determinants of health (SDOH) and wellbeing for refugees in Brisbane, Australia. A key component of this exploratory research was to map health and wellbeing outcomes of music participation using an existing SDOH framework developed by researchers in the field of health promotion (Schulz & Northridge, 2004). This paper maps r…
The lifetime soundtrack: Music as an archive for autobiographical memory
The ability of music to trigger memories of one’s own life experiences is, for many people, an everyday occurrence. This article uses material from an in-depth qualitative study of adults’ memory narratives, which reveals the potential for music to encapsulate memories and associated affect on a scale that extends from singular moments to collections of memories situated within distinct temporal boundaries. The ways in which participants’ memorie…
The sound of music heritage: Curating Popular Music in Music Museums and Exhibitions
A significant amount of previous academic research into popular music museums centres on critiques of the content, design and layout of predominantly authorised institutions. Throughout much of this research, authors consistently criticise the use, or rather, the perceived misuse, of music played within music museums, arguing that the music itself, rather than artefacts, constitutes the most significant part of popular music exhibition. This arti…
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts
This article explores issues relating to interdisciplinary work between heritage and creative practice. In particular, issues in conceptualising music heritage are raised through an example of research integrating heritage and creativity in a project aimed at highlighting jazz heritage in Queensland, Australia. The project, titled ‘Trading Fours’, was an extension of heritage research that sought to add oral histories, recorded music and ephemera…
Curating popular music heritage: Storytelling and Narrative Engagement in Popular Music Museums and Exhibitions
In parallel with a globally ageing ‘baby-boomer’ population, Western societies have seen an increase in the number of museums devoted to popular music. However, the discourse, design and display of traditional museums is at odds with the culture of popular music and its audience. This article explores how curators of ‘new museums’ of popular music harness aspects of storytelling to increase patron engagement within their exhibits. Drawing on inte…
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage
As illustrated by many of the chapters in this volume, the sites and strategies now available for the preservation of popular music history and heritage are manifold. Indeed, if the steps being taken to acknowledge the importance of popular music, and in particular more contemporaneous versions of popular music and their corresponding eras of emergence and innovation, as a bonafide form of cultural heritage are in themselves significant, then equ…
How does music heritage get lost? Examining cultural heritage loss in community and authorised music archives
While the mission of many community archives is often to exhaustively collect and preserve material of their topic area, it is inevitable that some heritage will not be recovered. Lost heritage impacts both public and academic communities where it results in incomplete histories, missing records and restricted access to precarious intangible and physical resources. Heritage will always get lost – but what processes lead to this? This paper outlin…
Participatory music-making and well-being within immigrant cultural practice: Exploratory case studies in South East Queensland, Australia
Music participation is a way of life for many cultures and is an activity that is often passed on generationally. It can become especially important as a leisure activity for maintenance of self- and national identity for people who have migrated to countries of contrasting cultures, such as Australia. This article describes exploratory, qualitative research into the ways in which participatory music-making within communities from immigrant backg…
The lifetime soundtrack: Music as an archive for autobiographical memory
The ability of music to trigger memories of one’s own life experiences is, for many people, an everyday occurrence. This article uses material from an in-depth qualitative study of adults’ memory narratives, which reveals the potential for music to encapsulate memories and associated affect on a scale that extends from singular moments to collections of memories situated within distinct temporal boundaries. The ways in which participants’ memorie…
Creative futures for cultural heritage: A typology of creative practice in the GLAM sector - towards a creative heritage approach
This article seeks to develop a non-prescriptive typology of creative practice and its role in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) institutions through an examination of published research. Highlighting key issues and perspectives on integration and intent in each approach it examines practice through five categories: (1) demonstration; (2) programmed performance; (3) historically informed creativity and performance; (4) institution…
The lifetime soundtrack ‘on the move’: Music, autobiographical memory and mobilities
Music can easily become associated with many activities in everyday life, often recorded within personal memory archives, sometimes maintaining a personal meaning across the lifetime. This article convenes on the interactions between music, memory and mobilities, as it explores the recollection of musical memories that incorporate both music mobilities and corporeal mobilities related to personal travel and movement. Drawing on empirical intervie…
Curatorial practice in popular music museums: An emerging typology of structuring concepts
Museums have been central to the institutionalisation of popular music as heritage; yet, there has been little scholarly focus on the curatorial strategies behind the exhibition of popular music’s past. This article outlines an emerging typological framework of structuring concepts in curatorial practice in popular music museums. The typology brings into conversation concepts previously identified by a number of popular music museum scholars. The…
Intramuros: Memory, violence and national becoming in Manila
Fort Santiago marks the site at which Spanish forces began the consolidation of the conquest of the Philippines, guarding the capital city of Manila from the 1590s. The fort, now in the heart of the Intramuros heritage precinct, was almost destroyed during the Second World War. It was gradually reconstructed in the decades that followed, and formed a centrepiece for the 1998 centennial celebrations of Philippine independence. It is now one of Man…
They [do more than] Interrupt Us from Sadness: Exploring the impact of participatory music making on social determinants of health and wellbeing for refugees in Australia
This paper reports on the outcomes of an exploratory narrative study on the impact of participatory music making on social determinants of health (SDOH) and wellbeing for refugees in Brisbane, Australia. A key component of this exploratory research was to map health and wellbeing outcomes of music participation using an existing SDOH framework developed by researchers in the field of health promotion (Schulz & Northridge, 2004). This paper maps r…
The lifetime soundtrack: Music as an archive for autobiographical memory
The ability of music to trigger memories of one’s own life experiences is, for many people, an everyday occurrence. This article uses material from an in-depth qualitative study of adults’ memory narratives, which reveals the potential for music to encapsulate memories and associated affect on a scale that extends from singular moments to collections of memories situated within distinct temporal boundaries. The ways in which participants’ memorie…
Short and long term outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse (Cald) and at-risk communities in participatory music programs: A systematic review
Curating popular music heritage: Storytelling and Narrative Engagement in Popular Music Museums and Exhibitions
In parallel with a globally ageing ‘baby-boomer’ population, Western societies have seen an increase in the number of museums devoted to popular music. However, the discourse, design and display of traditional museums is at odds with the culture of popular music and its audience. This article explores how curators of ‘new museums’ of popular music harness aspects of storytelling to increase patron engagement within their exhibits. Drawing on inte…
The sound of music heritage: Curating Popular Music in Music Museums and Exhibitions
A significant amount of previous academic research into popular music museums centres on critiques of the content, design and layout of predominantly authorised institutions. Throughout much of this research, authors consistently criticise the use, or rather, the perceived misuse, of music played within music museums, arguing that the music itself, rather than artefacts, constitutes the most significant part of popular music exhibition. This arti…
Musicians and the lifetime soundtrack: Creation and perception of musically motivated autobiographical memories
In addition to encountering music in everyday situations, musicians perform, compose, arrange, contemplate, and study music in a way that is integral to their everyday lives. This paper draws together ideas of autobiographical memory and musicianship via an examination of the ways in which musicians create and interpret musically triggered autobiographical memories. Using original interview narratives, the paper argues that the dual roles of prod…
Curatorial practice in popular music museums: An emerging typology of structuring concepts
Museums have been central to the institutionalisation of popular music as heritage; yet, there has been little scholarly focus on the curatorial strategies behind the exhibition of popular music’s past. This article outlines an emerging typological framework of structuring concepts in curatorial practice in popular music museums. The typology brings into conversation concepts previously identified by a number of popular music museum scholars. The…
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage
As illustrated by many of the chapters in this volume, the sites and strategies now available for the preservation of popular music history and heritage are manifold. Indeed, if the steps being taken to acknowledge the importance of popular music, and in particular more contemporaneous versions of popular music and their corresponding eras of emergence and innovation, as a bonafide form of cultural heritage are in themselves significant, then equ…
Intramuros: Memory, violence and national becoming in Manila
Fort Santiago marks the site at which Spanish forces began the consolidation of the conquest of the Philippines, guarding the capital city of Manila from the 1590s. The fort, now in the heart of the Intramuros heritage precinct, was almost destroyed during the Second World War. It was gradually reconstructed in the decades that followed, and formed a centrepiece for the 1998 centennial celebrations of Philippine independence. It is now one of Man…
The lifetime soundtrack ‘on the move’: Music, autobiographical memory and mobilities
Music can easily become associated with many activities in everyday life, often recorded within personal memory archives, sometimes maintaining a personal meaning across the lifetime. This article convenes on the interactions between music, memory and mobilities, as it explores the recollection of musical memories that incorporate both music mobilities and corporeal mobilities related to personal travel and movement. Drawing on empirical intervie…
Participatory music-making and well-being within immigrant cultural practice: Exploratory case studies in South East Queensland, Australia
Music participation is a way of life for many cultures and is an activity that is often passed on generationally. It can become especially important as a leisure activity for maintenance of self- and national identity for people who have migrated to countries of contrasting cultures, such as Australia. This article describes exploratory, qualitative research into the ways in which participatory music-making within communities from immigrant backg…
The values and value of community heritage: Visitor evaluation of do-it-yourself museums and archives of popular music in Europe, Australasia and the United States of America
Do-it-yourself (DIY) and community-based efforts to preserve popular music heritage often take place in tangible sites open to the public. These places contrast with authorised sites of heritage in their form, but not their function, and are often judged equally by visitors in terms of cultural value. This article analyses Tripadvisor user reviews of 11 DIY institutions of popular music heritage to highlight the tension between the production of …
How does music heritage get lost? Examining cultural heritage loss in community and authorised music archives
While the mission of many community archives is often to exhaustively collect and preserve material of their topic area, it is inevitable that some heritage will not be recovered. Lost heritage impacts both public and academic communities where it results in incomplete histories, missing records and restricted access to precarious intangible and physical resources. Heritage will always get lost – but what processes lead to this? This paper outlin…
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts
This article explores issues relating to interdisciplinary work between heritage and creative practice. In particular, issues in conceptualising music heritage are raised through an example of research integrating heritage and creativity in a project aimed at highlighting jazz heritage in Queensland, Australia. The project, titled ‘Trading Fours’, was an extension of heritage research that sought to add oral histories, recorded music and ephemera…
Back catalogue touring and the ephemeral archive: Personal memory and popular music heritage
Creative futures for cultural heritage: A typology of creative practice in the GLAM sector - towards a creative heritage approach
This article seeks to develop a non-prescriptive typology of creative practice and its role in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) institutions through an examination of published research. Highlighting key issues and perspectives on integration and intent in each approach it examines practice through five categories: (1) demonstration; (2) programmed performance; (3) historically informed creativity and performance; (4) institution…
Introduction: Popular music, revival and renewal: histories, cultures, practices
Creative heritage as contemporary collecting: The role of performing arts and cultural memory in migrant heritage preservation
The creative arts have a significant, yet currently under-utilised role to play in the collection, preservation, and presentation of tangible and intangible heritage both within and beyond institutional frameworks. The emerging method of creative heritage provides a novel approach to this, inviting communities and artists to respond to heritage collections through creative practice. This article outlines the ongoing development of the method thro…
Performing cultural heritage as a method of preservation in migrant communities
Sociology (13 works) · Art (11 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (7 works) · History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Music History and Culture (7 works) · Political science (7 works)