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Vinyl Records and Analog Culture in the Digital Age
Pressing Matters
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2016
Summary
Analog Culture in the Digital Age: Pressing Matters examines the resurgence of vinyl record technologies in the twenty-first century and their place in the history of analog sound and the recording industry. It seeks to answer the questions: why has this supposedly outmoded format made a comeback in a digital culture into which it might appear to be unwelcome? Why, in an era of disembodied pleasures afforded to us in this age of cloud computing would listeners seek out this remnant of the late nineteenth century and bring it seemingly back from the grave? Why do many listeners believe vinyl, with its obvious drawbacks, to be a superior format for conveying music to the relatively noiseless CD or digital file? This book looks at the ways in which music technologies are both inflected by and inflect human interactions, creating discourses, practices, disciplines, and communities.
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Edition
1/2016
Copyright Year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-1007-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-1008-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
191
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Cueing Up No access
1 “Dogs Don’t Listen to Phonographs”: Nipper, “His Master’sVoice,” and the Discourse of “Fidelity” No access Pages 1 - 22
2 The Beatles on itunes and Vinyl Reissue: Aesthetic Discourseand the Listening Subject No access Pages 23 - 44
3 Virtual Authenticity: The Reemergence of Vinyl in the Digital Age No access Pages 45 - 60
4 Criminal Records: Record Collecting as Counter-Discourse No access Pages 61 - 86
5 “Cabinets of Wonder” or “Coffins of Disuse?”: Reissues, BoxSets, and Commodity Fetishism No access Pages 87 - 108
6 “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”: Analog Audiophilia asDisciplinary Mechanism No access Pages 109 - 132
7 “The Vinyl Anachronist”: The Role of Social Media in theFormation of Communities of Vinyl No access Pages 133 - 158
The Run-Out Groove No access Pages 159 - 160
Bibliography No access Pages 161 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 190
About the Author No access Pages 191 - 191
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