The institutional context for the preservation of popular music-related heritage in the Netherlands has in recent years changed dramatically. On the one hand, this is related to major cuts in government support for all kinds of culture-related initiatives (OCW, 2011) On the other hand, it reflects a shift in priorities and a redistribution of functions across the institutional landscape. In the field of music, this has resulted in the closure in early 2013 of dedicated institutions such as the Muziek Centrum Nederland (Music Centre Netherlands) and the Nederlands Muziek Instituut (Dutch Music Institute) and the fragmentation of their collections across a number of institutions, including the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) and the University of Amsterdam.

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Brandellero, A., van der Hoeven, A., & Janssen, S. (2015). Valuing popular music heritage. In S. Baker, Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together, London: Routledge (pp. 31–45). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/78422