Vinyl Age

Name: Vinyl Age
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780316419710
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A Guide to Record Collecting Now

By Max Brzezinski

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Vinyl Age explores the resurgence of vinyl records in the digital era, offering an in-depth guide to record collecting today. Max Brzezinski and his colleagues at Carolina Soul deliver an engaging narrative and incisive analysis on how vinyl has become a vibrant cultural phenomenon, appealing to both newcomers and seasoned collectors alike. The book delves into the economics of vinyl, emerging musical genres, and the evolving community of collectors, providing a comprehensive look at an iconic medium and its enduring allure.
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This book is ideal for music enthusiasts, aspiring and experienced record collectors, and anyone interested in contemporary arts and culture. It serves as both a practical guide and a cultural study, perfect for those fascinated by the interaction between technology and music collecting.

From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of online record collecting in the digital era. This illustrated guide is packed with information for every type of collector, from crate diggers to hi-end collectors of rare vinyl.

Description

Today, Vinyl is shorthand for cool. Even with millions of songs available at the click of a mouse, music fans know that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. And, rather than killing vinyl, digital technology has elevated the art of record collecting into a new and vibrant age.

Vinyl Age is the definitive record collecting guidebook for the digital era. Written by expert Max Brzezinski and his highly experienced colleagues at Carolina Soul, Vinyl Age combines an engaging narrative, incisive analysis, and a modern design to reveal the joys and explain the complexities of the contemporary vinyl scene.

For aspiring crate diggers, this guide will provide an invaluable big-picture understanding of the vinyl economy, while OG vinyl heads will discover nascent musical genres, new breeds of collector, and models for adapting to the future of record collecting. To the rest of us, Vinyl Age offers an anatomy of an iconic medium and its growing subculture, its rapid transformation and lasting appeal.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780316419710

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 November 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc

Illustration: 40 Full-color illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 168.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 800g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Max Brzezinski Non-Fiction

About the Author

Max Brzezinski is the marketing director at Carolina Soul. He holds a PhD in English modernism from Duke University, and was previously an English professor at Wake Forest University. His literary essays and reviews have appeared in Novel and The Minnesota Review, and his music reviews in Dusted magazine. A long-time DJ, he hosts Carolina Soul's radio broadcast monthly. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Carolina Soul, based in Durham, North Carolina, is one of the world's largest high-end record sellers, moving over a thousand pieces a week through their brick-and-mortar location in downtown Durham and far-reaching presence in the thriving vinyl community online. They've got a highly engaged cult following on Instagram, as well as a long-running radio show on NTS, an online radio station with 624,000 unique listeners per month.