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Author Roy, Elodie A

Title Media, Materiality and Memory : Grounding the Groove
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages)
Series Music and Material Culture
Music and material culture series.
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
Summary "Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and memory in relation to a range of independent record labels, including Sarah Records, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers. 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 understanding the territory of recorded sound. How do musical objects 'write' cultural narratives? How can we unearth and reactivate past histories by looking at yesterday's media formats? What is the nature, and fate, of the physical archive in an increasingly dematerialized world? In what ways do physical and digital musical objects coexist and intersect? With its innovative theoretical approach, the book explores the implications of materialization in the fashioning of a musical world and its cultural transmission. A substantial contribution to the field of music and material culture studies, Media, Materiality and Memory also provides a nuanced and timely reflection on nostalgia and forgetting in the digital age."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sarah Records.
Ghost Box Records.
Finders Keepers (Firm)
SUBJECT Finders Keepers (Firm) fast
Ghost Box Records fast
Sarah Records fast
Subject Sound recording industry -- England
Sound recordings -- Social aspects
Sound recordings -- Collectors and collecting.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
Sound recording industry
Sound recordings -- Collectors and collecting
Sound recordings -- Social aspects
Grammofonindustri -- sociala aspekter.
Ljudupptagningar.
Skivsamlare.
England
Storbritannien.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317098744
1317098749
9781472459503
1472459504