Daniel Goldmark, director of the Center for Popular Music Studies, will give a presentation as part of the American Musicological Society and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lecture Series event series.
He will present “Anthologizing Rock and Roll: Rhino Records and the Repackaging of Rock History” Monday, May 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Library and Archives (2809 Woodland Ave., Cleveland).
Rhino originally focused on novelty artists, but became known for its retrospective anthologies and boxed sets. Through a series of distribution deals with Capitol, Roulette and Atlantic Records, Rhino solidified its position as industry leader for reissues by combining thoughtful and wide-ranging track lists with a humorous and often irreverent take on music and pop culture.
Goldmark will examine Rhino’s place as the preeminent reissue label in the record industry, evidenced by the clear influence it had on how other major labels conceived and packaged their own music.
In the process of creating unique boxed sets popular with both consumers and critics, Rhino also contributed to the burgeoning crystallization of the rock history canon. Informed in part by Goldmark’s experience as an editor and compilation producer at Rhino in the late 1990s, he will demonstrate how Rhino excelled in giving music fans collections of familiar hits in engaging formats and genre-bending compilations, while also giving the music industry more reasons to revisit back catalogs for lost or forgotten tracks to re-master and rerelease.
The Center for Popular Music Studies will co-sponsor this event.
This event is free and reservations are not required.
Learn more about the event at rockhall.com/ams-goldmark.