Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove

ISBN-13: 9780367597962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str.

Elodie A. Roy

Opis

Media, Materiality and Memory examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and memory in relation to a range of independent record labels. Moving from Edison’s phonograph to digital music files, from record collections to online archives, Roy argues that materiality plays a crucial role in constructing and understandin

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: music, material culture and archaeologies; Sarah Records (1987-1995) and the everyday; Ghost Box Records (2004-): materiality, technological mediation and the birth of ghosts; From collecting to curating and reissuing the recorded past: Finders Keepers (2004-) and reissue record labels; YouTube archivists, e-collectors and digital flâneurs: the internet and the future of phonography; Conclusion: the afterlife of music objects; Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Elodie A. Roy completed her doctorate at the International Centre for Music Studies (Newcastle University, UK). Her work focuses on the material culture of music and art, and the relationship between cultural objects, materiality and memorial practices, particularly in the wake of digitization. She has published in the fields of popular culture, cultural theory and French literature, and contributed a chapter on Sarah Records in the edited book LitPop: Writing and Popular Music (Ashgate 2014).