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Author Shuker, Roy

Title Wax trash and vinyl treasures : record collecting as a social practice / Roy Shuker
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)
Series Ashgate popular and folk music series
Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Contents The 78 era : creating a collector constituency -- The contemporary collector : beyond the High fidelity stereotype -- Formats, collectors and the music industry -- Taste, the canon and the collectable -- Collecting practices -- Record collecting and the music press -- Collector profiles -- Conclusion -- Appendices: The collectors ; The author as collector ; Institutional collecting
Summary The term 'record collecting' is shorthand for a variety of related practices. Foremost is the collection of sound recordings in various formats - although often with a marked preference for vinyl - by individuals, and it is this dimension of record collecting that is the focus of this book. Record collecting, and the public stereotypes associated with it, is frequently linked primarily with rock and pop music. Roy Shuker focuses on these broad styles, but also includes other genres and their collectors, notably jazz, blues, exotica and 'ethnic' music. Accordingly, the study examines the histor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sound recordings -- Collectors and collecting.
Collectors and collecting -- Social aspects
MUSIC -- Reference.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
Collectors and collecting -- Social aspects
Sound recordings -- Collectors and collecting
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754699163
0754699161
1282454331
9781282454330