Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store: A Global History

The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store: A Global History

Arnold, Gina
Dougan, John
Feldman-Barrett, Christine

Paperback

Music BusinessMusic Recording & ReproductionMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1501384511
ISBN13: 9781501384516
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 13 2023
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

This book 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-centers the record store as a marketplace of ideas, but also explore and celebrate a neglected personal history of many lives.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Arnold, Gina

View All

Also in

Music Reference

View All