The Content
We are currently in the process of building the RAPMM collection, and we’ll be continuing to add new titles both before and after launch. In the meantime, we are thrilled to announce that the following titles are confirmed for inclusion:
- 10 Things Jesus Wants You to Know
- Adventures in Reality
- Agree to Disagree
- American Upstart
- Are You Scared to Get Happy
- Arthur
- Bad Trip
- Bam Balam
- Beyond Our Control
- Blank Generation
- Blurt
- BravEar
- Caught in the Middle
- Certain Substances
- Chemical Imbalance
- College Media Journal (CMJ) / CMJ New Music Monthly / CMJ New Music Report
- Common Sense
- Cool Beans
- DNA
- Editorial del Futuro Método
- Estricnina
- Eurock
- Fembot
- Fluke
- Gulcher
- Hard Times
- Harp Magazine
- If This Be Sin
- Incite!
- Jamming!
- Metanoia
- MIAU
- Mojo Navigator Rock & Roll News
- ND
- Negative Response
- Not the Job Hunter
- Old Time Country
- ONETWOTHREEFOUR
- Paid My Dues
- Phonograph Record Magazine
- Propaganda
- Puncture
- Pussycat
- Razorcake
- Rejoice!
- Slash
- Sticky Fingers
- The Beat
- The Deli
- The Pig Paper
- Tremolina
- Trust
- Under the Radar
- Underdog
- (Who Put the) Bomp!
- Women in Sound
- Yesterday’s Memories
- Yeti
Named after the saxophonist who bridged musical worlds with his jazz-bossanova version of “The Girl from Ipanema,” the Stan Getz Library at the Berklee College of Music has likewise built its own series of musical bridges. In a quiet backroom filled floor-to-ceiling with stapled and sheathed pages, Dean of Library & Learning Resources Gary Haggerty spent twenty-plus years amassing one of the most extensive collections of music magazines and zines anywhere in the USA, including 500 titles, comprised of tens of thousands of issues—many of which are highly sought-after by collectors today.
The Stan Getz Library has granted RILM full access to their periodicals collection. Thanks to the generosity of current Dean of Library & Learning Resources Heather Reid and her colleagues, 100 boxes of periodicals are currently in our possession, with more available to us in the future. Until now these materials have been accessible only to the students and staff of the Berklee College of Music. The vast majority are unavailable anywhere in full-text form and remain uncatalogued in any existing music literature database.
With the Stan Getz Library’s support and encouragement, this collection—which includes many of the titles listed above—is the starting point for the digital archive known as RAPMM. Given its depth and breadth the Berklee Collection serves both as a bridge to the musical past and to a multitude of current genres and scenes. Its contents document the musical passions and worldviews of artists, critics, and fans based on lived experience. Far from being detached spectators, the majority of writers, editors, illustrators, etc. for these publications tend to be participant-observers in the musical worlds they write about, directly engaging with musicians, record labels, live performances, and localized scenes.