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Media, Materiality and Memory

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Media, Materiality and Memory book

Grounding the Groove

Media, Materiality and Memory

DOI link for Media, Materiality and Memory

Media, Materiality and Memory book

Grounding the Groove
ByElodie A. Roy
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 9 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315594538
Pages 234 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315594538
SubjectsArts, Humanities
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Roy, E. (2015). Media, Materiality and Memory. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315594538

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |28 pages

Introduction: Music, Material Culture and Archaeologies

chapter 1|38 pages

Sarah Records (1987–95) and the Everyday

chapter 2|38 pages

Ghost Box Records (2004–): Materiality, Technological Mediation and the Birth of Ghosts

chapter 3|36 pages

From Collecting to Curating and Reissuing the Recorded Past: Finders Keepers (2004–) and Reissue Record Labels

chapter 4|40 pages

YouTube Archivists, E-Collectors and Digital Flâneurs: The Internet and the Future of Phonography

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