platforming the improv community archive

This bibliography accompanies the presentation, “Platforming the Improv Community Archive: Performing Preservation with Digital Obscura in Pittsburgh’s DIY Music Scene.” Presented at the University of Pittsburgh’s 2025 Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference.

Bibliography

Berliner, Lauren S. “Like No One Is Watching: Taking Digital Obscura Seriously.” JCMS : Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, no. 3 (2024): 164–69.

Berliner, Lauren S. “Towards a Methodology of Unwatched Digital Media.” Feminist Media Histories 8, no. 2 (2022): 219–30. 

Harper, Colter. Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2024.

hooks, bell. “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators.” In Black Looks, 2nd ed., 115–31. Routledge, 2015.

JARK. “part 3.” on JARK. Recorded January–April 2023. Released May 30, 2025. Streaming audio, Bandcamp. https://jayrauch.bandcamp.com/album/jark.

Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. 1st ed. London; Routledge, 1993.

Pulver, Seth. “Open Improvisation Lab (Jan 27th, 2025).” Posted by VESICAEoooVESICA on February 10, 2025. YouTube video, 0:05:03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47gPP6wRHBs.

______. “Pittsburgh Sound Preserve Open Improvisation Lab 8/11/25.” Posted by VESICAEoooVESICA on August 25, 2025. YouTube video, 0:06:43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-UrH6fk0I.

Wilcher, May (@stripochre). “improvdrawing vol.2.” Instagram, July 13, 2025.