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Museum catalogue for the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records in the history of contemporary art

Table of Contents

Foreword / Kimerly Rorschach 9
Curator's Acknowledgments / Trevor Schoonmaker 11
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl / Trevor Schoonmaker 14
Record Timeline / Trevor Schoonmaker 48
Guided by Grooves: How Records Changed Music / Piotr Orlov 62
Beware of Gramomania: The Pleasures and Pathologies of Record Collecting / Mark Katz 68
Home of the Blues, House of Sounds: The Record Store / Charles McGovern 78
Just for the Record: Vinyl Rules / Carlo McCormick 86
Digging in the Crates / Mark Anthony Neal 96
El Disco Es Cultura / Josh Kun 106
The Record in Jamaica / Vivien Goldman 116
Needle to the Groove: Snippets from an Omnidirectional History / Jeff Chang 124
Do-It-Yourself / Barbara London 138
New Feeling / Jennifer Kabat 142
N. C. Noise / Mac McCaughan 154
Blazing Hip-Hop and R&B / Dave Tompkins 158
Yesterday and Today / Luc Sante 158
Cover to Cover 168
Exhibition Checklist and Artists' Statements 184
Artists' Biographies 202
Extended Playlist / Trevor Schoonmaker 212
Selected Bibliography 215
Timeline Reproduction Credits 216

About the Author

Trevor Schoonmaker is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. He is the editor of Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool; Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova, and Robin Rhode; Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti; and Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway.

Reviews

“The Record traces the indelible mark vinyl made on the music industry and the people who listen, from white youths crossing into black neighbourhoods in the passt to the obsessed retro collectors of today. Long live vinyl.”
*Globe and Mail*

“A fun book to go through and, if your collection extends to vinyl pop, jazz or classical LPs you’ll love this even more.”
*In the Groove*