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Recent years have seen not just a revival, but a rebirth of the analogue record. More than merely a nostalgic craze, vinyl has become a cultural icon. As music consumption migrated to digital and online, this seemingly obsolete medium became the fastest-growing format in music sales. Whilst vinyl never ceased to be the favorite amongst many music lovers and DJs, from the late 1980s the recording industry regarded it as an outdated relic, consigned to dusty domestic corners and obscure record shops. So why is vinyl now experiencing a ‘rebirth of its cool’?Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward explore this question by combining a cultural sociological approach with insights from material culture studies. Presenting vinyl as a multifaceted cultural object, they investigate the reasons behind its persistence within our technologically accelerated culture. Informed by media analysis, urban ethnography and the authors’ interviews with musicians, DJs, sound engineers, record store owners, collectors and cutting-edge label chiefs from a range of metropolitan centres renowned for thriving music scenes including London, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, and especially Berlin, what emerges is a story of a modern icon.
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Reviewer: Jayan Krishnan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A MUST FOR MUSIC AND VINYL RECORD LOVERS. Just Loved it!
Review: For vinyl and music lovers this is a must! It explores the resurgence and resistance of the analogue record amidst the digitalization of music. A history of music recordings from records, CDs, MP3 downloads and back to vinyl is masterly described. It very effectively psycho-socio analyses the basic human need to own tangible things and how this gives ourselves an identity and creates a (sub)culture. Ooh!..Too academic you think? No. There is a casual style as well, complete with photos and verbatim interviews with DJs, store owners, collectors that give it a personal, readable feel. If you are a music lover, especially a vinyl fan, you’ll see your experiences in every other page. Or one can read it just to understand the human condition that we all are. Never knew this vinyl/music culture has so many layers of humanness! Authors Ian and Dominik do not try to sell the vinyl message but leave You to experience and understand the subject matter. A great, insightful, reflective read. (Am not related or a personal friend of the authors or publisher. Just a genuine reviewer of a read I thoroughly enjoyed)
Reviewer: Alan Lawrence
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Four Stars
Review: Not an easy read but extremely interesting. Gave insight into my own obsession with everything vinyl.
Reviewer: wagtail
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Huh?
Review: I’m an academic. Great idea to begin the book’s preface with a homespun tale of the delights of searching for vinyl, an almost unmatched pleasure. And then, CLUNK. Let the academic paralysis set in.And like bad graduate school poetry, the extensive need to impress sucks the life out of the subject matter. Before long, you just know the flow ofstilted and unnecessarily awkward academic vocabulary (locatedness, juxtaposition, vis a’ vis, temporality) is inevitable and this great topic gets hijacked..Phrases like “materially mediated cultural meanings” and “heuristically master trope” can only obscure, not reveal your subject. And the deeply”needy” description of “materially mediated intersubjective experiences” is only surpassed in irrelevance by the incredibly verbose “meaning centered analysis of material objects.”And the “auratic affordances” and “engaging haptics” don’t do anything to establish any balance to the attack. There are many references to the poetics and mystery of both vinyl and music here but, make no mistake, you won’t find it in these pages.Absolutely deadly (and no fun, either).Just be glad they aren’t writing blues tunes.
Reviewer: Salvatore
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: E’ un testo ottimo e ricco di informazioni, sottolinea molteplici aspetti del ritorno in auge del vinile e lo descrive come mai prima d’ora avevo avuto occasione di leggere. Davvero interessante. Trovo alcune frasi un pò complesse ma resta che io sono italiano mentre il libro è in inglese quindi nulla da dire. L’ho letto molto volentieri e lo consiglio di cuore, sopratutto agli amante del vinile che vogliano sapere qualcosa in più sul loro formato preferito, a cosa serve e perchè non vuole lasciare il mondo della musica.
Reviewer: Paul James
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Interesting, but so far biased towards Berlin music scene!
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