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Academic research is an essential dimension of this project. The collaborative partners on this aspect of M3P are from the University of Hull (led by Dr [[Toni Sant]] from the School of Arts & New Media and supported by researchers [[User:Alexgrech|Alex Grech]],[[User:Tonygrimaud|Tony Grimaud]] and[[User:SteveBorg|Steve Borg]] and the University of Malta (Dr Ing Saviour Zammit from the Dept. of Communications & Computer Engineering and Dr Albert Bell from Youth & Community Studies). We're also looking into a similar collaboration with Birmingham City University (where our lead contact is Dr Paul Long), particularly with a view to share good practice in community engagement with the Birmingham Popular Music Archives, founded by Jez Collins. | Academic research is an essential dimension of this project. The collaborative partners on this aspect of M3P are from the University of Hull (led by Dr [[Toni Sant]] from the School of Arts & New Media and supported by researchers [[User:Alexgrech|Alex Grech]],[[User:Tonygrimaud|Tony Grimaud]] and [[User:SteveBorg|Steve Borg]] and the University of Malta (Dr Ing Saviour Zammit from the Dept. of Communications & Computer Engineering and Dr Albert Bell from Youth & Community Studies). We're also looking into a similar collaboration with Birmingham City University (where our lead contact is Dr Paul Long), particularly with a view to share good practice in community engagement with the Birmingham Popular Music Archives, founded by Jez Collins. | ||
Toni Sant has written a position paper on the academic dimension of the project. This paper appears in the current issue of the [[Journal of Music, Technology & Education]] and it is also viewable in the [[M3P:Reading_Room|M3P Reading Room]]. | Toni Sant has written a position paper on the academic dimension of the project. This paper appears in the current issue of the [[Journal of Music, Technology & Education]] and it is also viewable in the [[M3P:Reading_Room|M3P Reading Room]]. |
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- A general discussion about developments on the M3P can be found on the Main Page talk page
- Other than creating a page about your own work and/or direct interests, you can also help the M3P grow by contributing to entries that are marked as stubs (i.e. they need expanding) or pages that need cleaning up for one reason or another.
- If you'd really like to get your hands dirty with the blood and guts of the project, feel free to join us on the M3P:To Do list.
- If you're academically inclinded, you'll certainly want to know about the M3P:Reading Room.
- There's also an M3P page on Facebook, where all new pages are listed automatically for people to share on the most popular online social media network.
- You can also use the various discussion pages available for each page on the wiki to interact with other users and make suggestions for improvement of the wiki functionality.
Sharing memories
The main goal of the M3P is to provide an inclusive repository for memories of Malta's music and associated arts, ensuring that these are kept in posterity for current and future generations.
On 28 June 2010 we started exploring the basic information architecture by developing entries related to Xtruppaw.
Initial text for a page about the project was entered on 13 August 2010.
Contribution from the scene started trickling in soon after that and we've also developed a page Exploring Music Genres as a checklist for potential music genres that may be applicable to Maltese Music. Another exploratory list relates to Digital Audio Distributors. Both pages are fully open for contributions from the M3P community.
- Further updates and discussions on the back-end work can be found in the talk page for this Main Page, while some of the more transient work on the front end is listed below...at least for now.
History
The Malta Music Memory Project was launched during Notte Bianca: Lejl Imdawwal in Valletta, Malta on 25th September 2010, with an Inaugural Symposium and Networking Workshop at the St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity. The launch events included an evening concert called You Rarely Hear This On the Radio! at Hastings Garden, overlooking Marsamxett Harbour. This was the first in a series of events planned by M3P for 2010 & 2011.
The M3P Inaugural Conference took place at St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta on 3-4 June 2011. A number of evening sessions of live music included the second in a series of M3P events called You Rarely Hear This On the Radio! 2, presented with assistance from the Malta Arts Fund of the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts. Video recordings from these M3P events featuring live music will all be presented on this website in the coming months.
Support for these events was provided by the Malta Arts Fund of the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts and the Strategic Research Support Fund of the University of Hull's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Academic Research
Academic research is an essential dimension of this project. The collaborative partners on this aspect of M3P are from the University of Hull (led by Dr Toni Sant from the School of Arts & New Media and supported by researchers Alex Grech,Tony Grimaud and Steve Borg and the University of Malta (Dr Ing Saviour Zammit from the Dept. of Communications & Computer Engineering and Dr Albert Bell from Youth & Community Studies). We're also looking into a similar collaboration with Birmingham City University (where our lead contact is Dr Paul Long), particularly with a view to share good practice in community engagement with the Birmingham Popular Music Archives, founded by Jez Collins.
Toni Sant has written a position paper on the academic dimension of the project. This paper appears in the current issue of the Journal of Music, Technology & Education and it is also viewable in the M3P Reading Room.
See also details about the 2011 conference, which place at St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta on 3-4 June 2011, and the M3P Inaugural Symposium.
Contributions from the scene
- Pierre Portelli created the M3P logo and after several iterations we settled on the one you see on the site right now. We're hoping to have a page about the history of the logo as one of the project pages in the near future.
- Michael Bugeja has contributed the Lib66 directory of the Malta music scene and his newspaper articles, which are also coming together as a page called Articles by Michael Bugeja under the category Newspaper articles - but this probably needs to be a proper sub-category. Suggestions/comments welcome at Talk:Main Page.
- Wayne Flask is contributing his articles from magazines and newspapers too.
- Dean Muscat is contributing his gig reviews.
- Lito Micallef is looking into ways to integrate the work he has does with live music events at Litorocks.com with the M3P current events section.
- Mario Axiaq is keeping us updated with information about deaths of people that should be recorded on the M3P: Deaths in 2010 - Deaths in 2010
- Toni Sant is contributing updates through his weekly Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast and updating entries for Malta's Top 10.
Year in Review
After 10 years of presenting a review of the preceding year on the MaltaMedia Online Network, elements of the same production team started contributing a similar review to the M3P. The 2010 review was the first review made accessible via M3P and contributions to it, and other Year in Review pages are welcome from all registered users in the same spirit as everything else on this website. It is envisioned that reviews of previous years throughout the first decade of the 21th century will be brought to the M3P and archived here accordingly.