[Commlist] Media, Materiality and Memory – new in Paperback edition

https://www.routledge.com/Media-Materiality-and-Memory-Grounding-the-Groove-1st-Edition/Roy/p/book/9781472459480 


 1st Edition
Media, Materiality and Memory
Grounding the Groove
By Elodie A. Roy
Copyright Year 2015

ISBN 9781472459480
Published October 9, 2015 by Routledge
234 Pages


Book Description

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

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.

Author(s)
Biography

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).

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