Popular Entertainment and Music
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 2,500 objects related to popular music and entertainment in Glasgow which date from between 1841 and 1989. This collection includes costume, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculpture, scrapbook, vinyl records and juke boxes. It also contains leaflets, programmes, tickets, commemorative items and related musical instruments such as an accordion, a dulcimer and a guitar. These items mainly focus on the social history of popular music and its production and consumption in Glasgow in the 19th and 20th centuries. They represent people who have been important contributors to Glasgow's popular music and dance culture including Matt McGinn, Billy Connolly and Sir Hugh Roberton, founder and conductor of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir.
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