1st Edition
The Vinyl Revival, Gender, and Collecting Aesthetics
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: Record Collecting & Ownership
Histories and Contexts: The Album Replacement Cycle
The High Fidelity Stereotype
Overview of the Book
Key Concepts
Chapter 2: Decoding Vinyl and the Cultural Pulse
Listening and Collecting
Fandom, Audience, and Consumption
Representations of Gender
Social Media and Online Resources
Chapter 3: Voices in Vinyl: Unpacking Gender Narratives
Premise
Women in Vinyl
Ethnographies
Winnie, Liv, and Everly
Cora, Selma, and Billie
Chapter 4: Analogue Echoes: Vinyl as Cultural Artefact
Physical Formats in the 21st Century
Vinyl as an Artefact
Record Store Day
Auto-Ethnography
Chapter 5: Cult Collectors: Vertigo’s Swirl Era and the Barton Collection
Introduction
Case Study: Vertigo Records
Case Study: Ritchie Barton Collection
Chapter 6: Bengans: Record Shops, Retail and Cultural Sites in the 21st Century
Second-Hand Trade
Bengans
Chapter 7: Popular Music as Cultural Heritage
Heritage and Archiving
Do-It-Yourself
Do-It-Together
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Appendix A: Top 40 Selling Cassettes 2022
Appendix B: Vertigo Swirl Catalogue
Index
Biography
Veronica Skrimsjö is Lecturer at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), Liverpool, United Kingdom.
