Rock musicians -- Marketing

The Music Button and Pin Collection contains realia documenting late 20th century, early 21st century popular Anglophone music. Materials largely designed to advertise and promote musicians, bands, and albums, with some dedicated to record labels, record shops, and other related organizations.

Collection contains promotional and marketing files, mostly for popular and rock music artists and bands, including promotional materials from record labels, some clippings from newspapers and magazines, promotional photographs, some press releases, and other ephemeral marketing materials. Fewer folders relate to music venues, movie and television soundtracks, and musical genres.

This collection contains several hundred record flats from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Record flats were promotional materials, usually for record stores, that are usually 12 inches square and were used by record labels to promote new releases and artists. The artists included on the flats cover many musical genres, including pop, rock, jazz and comedy. Most of these flats are 12"x12" squares but some are in shapes such as circles.