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You Sound Like a Broken Record
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September 24, 2014 by Richard Elliott

Paul Nataraj, a doctoral student at the University of Sussex, gave a fascinating paper on his research during the Musical …
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Category Research | Tags: history, listening, materiality, sound recordings, vinyl
Phonographic Voices (ii)
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June 24, 2014 by Richard Elliott

In her book In Search of the Blues, Marybeth Hamilton highlights a contradiction at the heart of writings about the …
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Category Research | Tags: agency, Alan Lomax, Blues, collecting, ethnomusicology, Folk, Folkways, Jazz, Moses Asch, phonography
Lazaretto, Pono and A Letter Home
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June 20, 2014 by Richard Elliott

A piece for The Conversation by Richard Elliott on Jack White, Neil Young and musical materiality, inspired by a number …
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Category Research | Tags: 78s, materiality, phonography, records, sound recordings
Phonographic Voices (i)
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May 8, 2014 by Richard Elliott

As part of an ongoing study of attempts within the Anglophone critical establishment to understand, curate, evaluate and otherwise ‘master’ …
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Category Research | Tags: archives, critical reception, history, listening, otherness, phonography, records, sound recordings, vinyl archaeology
Fans only – Note on one-copy albums
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April 9, 2014 by Elodie A. Roy

In the wake of Jean-Michel Jarre’s one-copy release of Musique Pour Supermarché in 1983 and the one-copy LPs released since …
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Category Research | Tags: aura, collector, consumption, scarcity, Wu-Tang-Clan
The politics of listening and the fantasy of total control
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April 8, 2014 by Richard Elliott

Collecting and archiving are processes that help connect the notions of ‘recording loss’ and ‘lost recordings’, both of which hinge …
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Category Research | Tags: agency, collecting, consumption, listening, materiality, sound recordings
Phonography’s defining traits
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March 25, 2014 by Richard Elliott

In his influential book Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music, Mark Katz identifies seven traits of sound recording technology …
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Category Research | Tags: cracked media, phonography, sound recordings