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- objects that, when they were produced, were not intended to last a long time or were specially produced for one occasion: Among other pop ephemera, the auction will be selling off rock stars ' stage clothes.
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One definition for ephemera is "the minor transient documents of everyday life". [3] [4] Ephemera are often paper-based, printed items, including menus, ticket stubs, newspapers, postcards, posters, sheet music, stickers, and greeting cards. However, since the 1990s, the term has been used to refer to digital artefacts or texts.
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Ephemera vivify ihe history of music, illuminate people, events and organizations. This article argues for a general definition of musical ephemera, and the importance of these sources in various types of musicological research.
This chapter argues how ephemera may be read not as mere sidelines to culture but as central documents pertaining to the wide and complex intellectual issues in music. Keywords: Hector Berlioz , ephemera , newspaper , periodical , antiquarian , sheet music
The classic definition of ephemera is something lasting for only a day. The OED cites someone named Trevisa who, in 1398, wrote: “effimera, one dayes feuer is as it were the heete of one daye.” In 1624, someone named Hart concurred: “that feauer which we call Ephemera, not exceeding foure and twentie houres.”
- Eddie Jones For Mayor, 1987
- Community Bridge and Liberation Message, 1972
- Nashville Conservatory of Music Recital, 1905
- Fearless Railway Threshing Machines, Ca. 1878
This brochure, from Eddie Jones' 1987 campaign for mayor outlines his experience and qualifications for the job, his vision for the city, and encourages supporters to get involved in his campaign. He lost the election to Bill Boner. (Source: Biography Ephemera Subject Files).
This is the cover from a local publication serving Nashville's African-American community in the early 1970s. It includes articles about a national meeting of black social workers held in Nashville; the inequitable attention given public works projects in the Music Row area, while neighborhoods in North Nashville needed maintenance and upgrades; an...
As a student at the Nashville Conservatory of Music, Ellen Lovell gave a piano recital on Jan. 27, 1905. This program shows her portrait on the cover, as well as a full listing of the performances and performers at the recital. (Source: Schools Ephemera Subject Files)
This illustration is from a catalog brochure for products of the Fearless Railway Threshing Machine Company, dated around 1878. George Stockell was a Nashville dealer who served as an agent of the company, which was headquartered in New York state. Most of the company's products used literal horse-power, with one or more horses walking on a treadmi...
1. : something of no lasting significance usually used in plural. 2. ephemera plural : paper items (such as posters, broadsides, and tickets) that were originally meant to be discarded after use but have since become collectibles. Examples of ephemera in a Sentence. He has a large collection of old menus and other ephemera.
Broadsides—by far the most popular ephemeral format used throughout printed history—are single sheets of paper, printed on one side only.
