{"id":3008,"date":"2016-07-26T10:06:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.unews.umc.utah.edu\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:16:09","slug":"visual-time-capsule-of-slc-music-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.unews.umc.utah.edu\/visual-time-capsule-of-slc-music-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual time-capsule of SLC music scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3017\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 188px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3017\" src=\"https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123946\/Three-Dog-Night.jpg\" alt=\"Three Dog Night\" width=\"188\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123946\/Three-Dog-Night.jpg 3273w, https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123946\/Three-Dog-Night.jpg 254w, https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123946\/Three-Dog-Night.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123946\/Three-Dog-Night.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><div class=\"caption-bottom\"><p class=\"credit\"><span class=\"pre-text\">PHOTO CREDIT: <\/span> J. Willard Marriott Library<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Dog Night<\/p><button class=\"outline-light btn-full-width btn-download\"><i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123946\/Three-Dog-Night.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Download Full-Res Image<\/a><\/button><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Since its birth in the 1960s, concert poster art has been on the rise, gaining popularity and continually changing over time with the introduction of different technology. These changes are evident in a collection of concert posters spanning more than 50 years from the multitude of small music venues around the Salt Lake Valley housed in the University of Utah\u2019s J. Willard Marriott Library.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn many respects, poster art became an archival visual time-capsule of a current scene happening at a particular moment in time,\u201d said John Costa, U associate professor of music. \u201cSo much so, that viewing them years later can capture one&#8217;s imagination and make that past scene live once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3015\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 187px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3015\" src=\"https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123947\/Alice-Cooper.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Cooper\" width=\"187\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123947\/Alice-Cooper.jpg 1629w, https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123947\/Alice-Cooper.jpg 310w, https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123947\/Alice-Cooper.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123947\/Alice-Cooper.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><div class=\"caption-bottom\"><p class=\"credit\"><span class=\"pre-text\">PHOTO CREDIT: <\/span> J. Willard Marriott Library<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Cooper<\/p><button class=\"outline-light btn-full-width btn-download\"><i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123947\/Alice-Cooper.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Download Full-Res Image<\/a><\/button><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Marriot Library Special Collections has an extensive archive of posters from venues such as The Terrace Ballroom, The Salt Palace arena, the Union Ballroom at the U, Kilby Court as well as numerous bars and private clubs featuring bands large and small \u2013 ranging from The Who, Three Dog Night, Love and Alice Cooper, to indie bands such as Built to Spill, The Decemberists and Daniel Johnston and many local bands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have fond memories of concerts I went to 40 years ago in the Union Building Corkroom, listening to popular local bands like Stoneground and Holden Caulfield,\u201d said Ron Bitton, curator of historical maps and newspapers for the Marriott Library.\u00a0\u201cUpstairs, in the Union Ballroom, you could hear national touring acts like Tower of Power or Cold Blood. Of course, these days not many people will recognize the names of those bands.\u00a0The Corkroom disappeared years ago and is now a computer lab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The collection, which continues to grow, preserves a unique, vivid perspective on the changing character of the music scene and offers a colorful glimpse back at an era that\u2019s long since vanished.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3012\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 206px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3012\" src=\"https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123949\/Accn2211_1_1002.jpg\" alt=\"Leia Bell\" width=\"206\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123949\/Accn2211_1_1002.jpg 3587w, https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123949\/Accn2211_1_1002.jpg 394w, https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123949\/Accn2211_1_1002.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123949\/Accn2211_1_1002.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><div class=\"caption-bottom\"><p class=\"credit\"><span class=\"pre-text\">PHOTO CREDIT: <\/span> J. Willard Marriott Library<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leia Bell<\/p><button class=\"outline-light btn-full-width btn-download\"><i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/d1bbnjcim4wtri.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/16123949\/Accn2211_1_1002.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Download Full-Res Image<\/a><\/button><\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cForty years from now college students will be amazed to see that their grandparents saw performers with names like Cobra Starship and Death Cab for Cutie,\u201d added Bitton.<\/p>\n<p>A more recent collection at the library includes concert posters created by Leia Bell, a popular local artist whose cartoon like prints have become synonymous with underground music in Salt Lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who has attended a concert at Kilby Court in the last 10 years is familiar with her signature artwork and probably owns a magnet or two with the images of their favorite posters,\u201d said Julia Huddleston, archivist for Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p>The collection is currently not on public display, but anyone can view them by inquiring at Special Collections desk on the fourth floor of the library.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since its birth in the 1960s, concert poster art has been on the rise, gaining popularity and continually changing over time with the introduction of different technology. 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