Media, Materiality and Memory - Grounding the Groove

Informationen zum Autor 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). Zusammenfassung 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. This book explores the implications of materialization in the fashioning of a musical world and its cultural transmission. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Elodie Amandine Roy, Elodie A. Roy
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2015
• EAN: 9781472459480
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5948-0
• No. of pages: 231
• Series: Music and Material Culture; Music and Material Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Rock, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Theory of music & musicology, Pop Music, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology