The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store: A Global History
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Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes about our relationship to shopping, capitalism, and art. This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general. What was their role in shaping social practices, aesthetic tastes, and even, loosely put, ideologies? From women-owned and independent record stores, to Reggae record shops in London, to Rough Trade in Paris, this book takes on a global and interdisciplinary approach to evaluating record stores. It collects stories and memories, and facts about a variety of local stores that not only re-centers the record store as a marketplace of ideas, but also explore and celebrate a neglected personal history of many lives.
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Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
Publication Date: 13 Jul 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781501384516
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Gina Arnold is an author music journalist and adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco USA. She has been a writer for Rolling Stone Spin the Village Voice and many other publications and is author of Liz Phairs Exile in Guyville (Bloomsbury 2014) Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella (2018) and co-editor of Music/Video (Bloomsbury 2017). John Dougan is Professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University USA. He has published essays and reviews in Rolling Stone Spin All Music Guide American Music Journal of Popular Music Studies Popular Music and Society Salon and Perfect Sound Forever. He is the author of The Who Sell Out (Bloomsbury 2006) and The Mistakes of Yesterday The Hopes of Tomorrow: The Story of the Prisonaires (University of Massachusetts Press 2013). Christine Feldman-Barrett is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities Languages and Social Science at Griffith University Australia. A youth cultural historian she is author of We are the Mods: A Transnational History of a Youth Subculture (2009) and A Womens History of the Beatles (Bloomsbury 2021). She is also editor of Lost Histories of Youth Culture (2015). Matthew Worley is Professor of modern history at the University of Reading UK. His more recent work has concentrated on the relationship between youth culture and politics in Britain primarily in the 1970s and 1980s. He is the author of No Future: Punk Politics and British Youth Culture 1976-1984 (2017) and co-founder of the Subcultures Network.