Pop Museum

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The Popmuseum was a weekly music program on the Austrian radio station Ö3 , which was the Saturday edition of the Musicbox between 1970 and 1972 . From October 16, 1974, the Pop Museum was broadcast as an independent program and, after a break of several years, was presented by Wolfgang Kos for several years from the end of 1987 . Following his work as director of the Wien Museum , Kos once again curated several pop museums on Ö1 during selected holiday periods (Easter, summer and Christmas holidays) in the mid-2010s.

Shipment history

The Popmuseum began as a weekly music program on the Austrian radio station Ö3 , which was the Saturday edition of the Musicbox between 1970 and 1972 . The show, which premiered as an independent show on October 16, 1974, was developed by Wolfgang Kos and presented by Wolfgang Hübsch . Over the years, the Pop Museum has been broadcast at changing broadcast times. After a break of several years, the Popmuseum was presented for several years from the end of 1987 by Wolfgang Kos himself. During his work as director of the Wien Museum, Kos used the name of his earlier radio show as a series title for those “music lectures” that occasionally took place alongside the exhibitions in his museum. After retiring as museum director, Kos once again curated some pop museums on Ö1 during selected holiday periods (Easter, summer and Christmas holidays).

Shipment concept

Initially, the series was supposed to offer an "inventory of pop music and all pop greats from 1953 to 1969". The determining motto of the theme and music selection of the weekly Popmuseum exhibitions was to play classics and rarities, but not so-called "oldies".

In its early days, the cabaret-style pop museum lasted half an hour. At that time Kos wrote the manuscript for a fictional museum supervisor who presented the program as the main character. The museum attendant, played by Wolfgang Hübsch , led the way through the current exhibition of his museum, half unsuspecting but provided him with the important facts, and during the presentation of the acoustic exhibits he repeatedly mentioned a "Mr. Director" whose specialist knowledge he was partly submissive, partly knowledgeable, partly reproduced "from below".

After a long break in broadcasting, this broadcast concept was revised at the end of 1987 for the new edition of the Popmuseum and the broadcasting time was doubled. As part of the 1995 Ö3 reform, the Popmuseum was broadcast on Sundays between 11:05 p.m. and midnight for several years from autumn 1995.

subjects

The show was partly dedicated to individual musicians and bands, partly to themes and motifs that play a decisive role in rock and pop music: “Cars”, the mood color “blue”, (in 1993 there was even a corresponding summer series entitled The Theory of Color pop music ), "doctors" (in band names and song titles), "freight trains", "horses" and the like. With this associatively mixed theme setting, the Popmuseum is comparable to Bob Dylan's theme Time Radio Hour , whose program concept also focuses on thematic focuses (“prison”, “dogs”, “coffee”, “neighbors”, “radio”, “shoes”, “telephone”) "," Water "," Weather "etc.).

Identifier

Acoustically, the program originally began with the sound of a creaking iron door that was unlocked and slowly but noisily opened, which, through the association with the opening of a dusty attic chamber, emphasized the ironic, cabaret Munsters effect of the Pop Museum .

The later identification began with the spoken enumeration of the individual pop music decades, each briefly characterized by prototypical sound samples: "The Fifties , the Sixties , the Seventies and finally the Eighties ", followed by Canned Heats On The Road Again with the one above The announcement “Das Popmuseum presented by Wolfgang Kos ” was to be heard by a woman .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arbeiter-Zeitung : Today's Programs. Ö3 15: 05–16: 00. 18th September 1971.
  2. ↑ Hörfunktips: News on Ö3 (see bottom right) Arbeiter-Zeitung , October 16, 1974, p. 9, accessed on August 7, 2014
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Kos: Nostalgia-free zone. For the comeback of the Ö3 "Pop Museum" as an Ö1 series. ORF: Ö1. June 23, 2016.
  4. ↑ Peter Klein : A classic returns. ORF: Ö1. June 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ Arbeiter-Zeitung : Today's Programs. Ö3 15: 05–16: 00. 18th September 1971.
  6. ↑ Hörfunktips: News on Ö3 (see bottom right) Arbeiter-Zeitung , October 16, 1974, p. 9, accessed on August 7, 2014
  7. ↑ For example: Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 6:30 p.m. Pop Museum “I feel free” hits and rarities from Swinging London. Wolfgang Kos with Edek Bartz. Event as part of the exhibition. Late sixties. Photographs by Christian Skrein. Wien Museum Karlsplatz, A-1040 Vienna, Karlsplatz.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Kos: Nostalgia-free zone. For the comeback of the Ö3 "Pop Museum" as an Ö1 series. ORF: Ö1. June 23, 2016.
  9. ↑ Peter Klein : A classic returns. ORF: Ö1. June 23, 2016.
  10. ^ Ö 3 still only on Ö 3. Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of September 14, 1995, p. 17.