Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age / Edition 1

Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age / Edition 1

by Dominik Bartmanski, Ian Woodward
ISBN-10:
0857856618
ISBN-13:
9780857856616
Pub. Date:
06/30/2020
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0857856618
ISBN-13:
9780857856616
Pub. Date:
06/30/2020
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age / Edition 1

Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age / Edition 1

by Dominik Bartmanski, Ian Woodward

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Overview

Recent years have seen not just a revival, but a rebirth of the analogue record. More than merely a nostalgic craze, vinyl has become a cultural icon. As music consumption migrated to digital and online, this seemingly obsolete medium became the fastest-growing format in music sales. Whilst vinyl never ceased to be the favorite amongst many music lovers and DJs, from the late 1980s the recording industry regarded it as an outdated relic, consigned to dusty domestic corners and obscure record shops. So why is vinyl now experiencing a ‘rebirth of its cool’—Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward explore this question by combining a cultural sociological approach with insights from material culture studies. Presenting vinyl as a multifaceted cultural object, they investigate the reasons behind its persistence within our technologically accelerated culture. Informed by media analysis, urban ethnography and the authors’ interviews with musicians, DJs, sound engineers, record store owners, collectors and cutting-edge label chiefs from a range of metropolitan centres renowned for thriving music scenes including London, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, and especially Berlin, what emerges is a story of a modern icon.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857856616
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/30/2020
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dominik Bartmanski earned his PhD in sociology at Yale University, USA and currently teaches in the Sociology Department of the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.Ian Woodward is Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Management, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsPreface1. Vinyl as Record: Several Lives of the 'King Format'2. Medium: Handling and Hearing3. Thing: Qualities and Entanglements4. Commodity: Value and Markets5. Totem: Scene-Making in Urban SpacesEpilogue: Modern IconNotesBibliographyIndex
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