[Commlist] New book: Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture

Elodie A. Roy is happy to announce the recent publication of /Shellac in 
Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter/ (Amsterdam University Press).

The book charts the unsettled media cultures and deep time of shellac, 
retracing its journey from the visual to the sonic, and back again.

More information (as well as the table of contents) can be accessed on 
the publisher’s website: 
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463729543/shellac-in-visual-and-sonic-culture

Until the end of December 2023, the book can be purchased with a 20% 
discount. Please use the code “AUP20” on checkout.

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Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture
Unsettled Matter
This book charts the unsettled media cultures and deep time of shellac, 
retracing its journey from the visual to the sonic, and back again. Each 
chapter unveils a situated moment in the long history of shellac – 
travelling from its early visual culture to Emile Berliner’s discovery 
of its auditory properties through to its recycling in contemporary art 
and design practices. Unforeseen correspondences between artefacts as 
diverse as mirrors, seals, gramophone discs and bombs are revealed. With 
its combinatory approach and commitment to material thinking, Shellac in 
Visual and Sonic Culture insists on moments of contact, encounter, and 
transformation. The book notably addresses the colonial unconscious 
underpinning the early transnational recording industry, highlighting 
the multiple gestures and forms of labour entombed within the production 
of the 78rpm disc. Roy explores shellac as a concrete substance, as well 
as the malleable stuff of which stories, histories and modern imaginings 
were made – and unmade.

Elodie A. Roy is a media and material culture theorist with a specialism 
in the history of phonography. She is the author of Media, Materiality 
and Memory: Grounding the Groove, and the co-editor (with Eva Moreda 
Rodríguez) of Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of 
Sound, 1890-1945.

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