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Welcome to the 90's Portland Underground Documentation Wiki
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This wiki has been started in response to a posting on a Portland music list by local musican Adam Forkner looking for assistance/input in a project to document and chronicle the Portland arts scene from the 1990's. Here's an excerpt from Adam's message:
been thinking a lot about the under-documented 90's diy/underground scenes. a lot has come out recently documenting the late 70's thru the 80's diy portland scene..a prime motivator in thinking about the development after that, which not so far past but is nevertheless fading from memory……. before the internet starting cataloging stuff, but after, say, 1990 or so….
been talking with others, lots of deep brain clouds of memory and things and people and bands and venues and houses and art and ideas and specific shows and everything…
we are just beginning to collect data, the use of which will maybe be a big thick book and/ or maybe some sort of online wiki-type open source knowledge base and/or a series of lectures/panels
at this point just collecting data
unlike other scene retrospectives i want to go from the bottom up (the most weird and obscure up to the most popular/well-known/well-documented) giving as much space and room as needed for as much data (verbal accounts, photos, videos, audio?, flyers and hand bills, interviews, discographies etc) as possible. EXTENSIVE and ALL-INCLUSIVE, but with the core being the diy/underground/punk/weird/noise/etc spirit
This wiki is an attempt to provide a central workspace for this project. Currently things are pretty bare-bones. I am putting up the information from Adam's original list, though and should be adding some more names and content as I have time.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
- Michael
(michael at meaningliberation dot org)
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About this Wiki:
This site is an attempt to chronicle/document the underground arts/music scene from Portland, Oregon in the 1990's. Any artist/band/music venue/record label/etc. will have it's own page and all the pages will be linked together. Obviously there's a lot more that needs to be added. That's where you come in. The idea behind doing this as a wiki is that everyone can contribute and we can harness the collective memory of our community. As such, you are encouraged to contribute to this project.
There are a couple of different ways you can take part:
- First - we have a Discussion Board, as part of this site - come let us know things you feel should be added (or just reminisce). If you don't have the time or technological know-how to add content directly, this is the best way to take part. We'll try to add new information that comes up in the discussions into the site content as it comes up.
- Second, since this is a wiki, you can actually edit pages and add new ones if you want to add your information directly. Here's the basics:
- To edit a page, go to the page and click the Edit button. You can change everything in the main area of your page. The Wikidot language is easy to learn but powerful.
- Every Wikidot page has a history of edits, and you can undo anything. So feel secure, and experiment.
- If you want to play around with something, there is a page specificly designed for this purpose - the sandbox.
- You can attach images and other files to any page, then display them and link to them in the page.
- If you want to learn more, make sure you visit the Documentation section at www.wikidot.com
Have fun. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments or suggestions. Also, anybody that would like to help me administer things, let me know.
thanks,
Michael
(michael at meaningliberation dot org)
