The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store

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The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store explores the profound impact of record stores on individuals, communities, musical genres, and society worldwide. It investigates how these local hubs fostered social mobility and shaped cultural tastes, ideologies, and social practices. Featuring stories from women-owned shops to Reggae stores in London and Rough Trade in Paris, the book offers a global, interdisciplinary look at record stores as vibrant marketplaces of ideas and crucial cultural spaces.
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This book is perfect for music lovers, sociologists, and anyone interested in the cultural history of music retail and community spaces. Discophiles and those fascinated by the social and economic dynamics of local music scenes will find it particularly engaging.

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Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes about our relationship to shopping, capitalism, and art.

The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general. What was their role in shaping social practices, aesthetic tastes, and even, loosely put, ideologies?

From women-owned and independent record stores, to Reggae record shops in London, to Rough Trade in Paris, this book takes on a global and interdisciplinary approach to evaluating record stores. It collects stories and memories, and facts about a variety of local stores that not only re-centres the record store as a marketplace of ideas but also explores and celebrates a neglected personal history of many lives.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

A Record Collector praises it as a "great, authoritative deep dive" capturing record stores as "subcultural spaces" and community sanctuaries. Peter Holsapple describes it as deeply personal and relatable, while Geoff Travis, founder of Rough Trade Records, appreciates its international perspective uniting a unique subculture globally. The book is lauded as a fascinating mix of memoir, history, and sociology that celebrates the record store's role as a vital community resource.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501384516

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Contributors:

Edited by Matthew Worley
Edited by Gina Arnold
Edited by John Dougan
Edited by Prof Christine Feldman-Barrett

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 296

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Gina Arnold is an author, music journalist, and adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, USA. She has been a writer for Rolling Stone, Spin, the Village Voice and many other publications, and is author of Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville (Bloomsbury, 2014), Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella (2018), and co-editor of Music/Video (Bloomsbury, 2017).

John Dougan is Professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He has published essays and reviews in Rolling Stone, Spin, All Music Guide, American Music, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Popular Music and Society, Salon, and Perfect Sound Forever. He is the author of The Who Sell Out (Bloomsbury, 2006), and The Mistakes of Yesterday, The Hopes of Tomorrow: The Story of the Prisonaires (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013).

Christine Feldman-Barrett is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia. A youth cultural historian, she is author of “We are the Mods”: A Transnational History of a Youth Subculture (2009) and A Women’s History of the Beatles (Bloomsbury, 2021). She is also editor of Lost Histories of Youth Culture (2015).

Matthew Worley is Professor of modern history at the University of Reading, UK. His more recent work has concentrated on the relationship between youth culture and politics in Britain, primarily in the 1970s and 1980s. He is the author of No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984 (2017) and co-founder of the Subcultures Network.