The research is a very insightful and informative contribution to the emerging digital world focus on the literature on vinyl records. The study combines a cultural sociological approach with insights from material cultural studies, supporting and illustrating their theoretical discussion with frequently fascinating material from several interviews.
This project investigates the reasons behind vinyl records persistence within our technologically accelerated culture & provide meticulous details as to how materiality matters in our digital world. This project focuses on establishing vinyl’s status as a ‘special object’. The dissertation is written with love for vinyl records, their aesthetics and the forms of social life they foster.
In the digital years we live, with the usage of smart phones and mp3 technologies, users have easily access to the global sounds. Vinyl records seek the persistence of an older technology of the consumption & production of music. Vinyl demonstrates the ways how the material objects play a significant role in our everyday lives, not only through the sound quality but also through the feeling.
Welcome to the world of the post-digital.
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