Detroit Sound Conservancy is a community-based archive dedicated to preserving, activating, and celebrating Detroit’s musical heritage. DSC shares its resources to support archival practices that amplify this heritage and safeguard its history—of people, movements, legends, and lore. Through archival preservation practices, education initiatives and intergenerational live performance programming, DSC preserves and provides access to the vivid memory of musical movements, uplifts artistic legacies, counteracts reductive representation, and centers the act of listening as a cornerstone of community.