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

Fri Oct 20 15:25:14 GMT 2023



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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