Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium
by John Corbett
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From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. Music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend's mind, documenting and reflecting on his decades-long love affair with vinyl. Discussing more than 200 rare and out-of-print LPs, Vinyl Freak is composed in part of Corbett's long-running Downbeat magazine column of the same name, which was devoted to show more records that had not appeared on CD. In other essays where he combines memoir and criticism, Corbett considers the current vinyl boom, explains why vinyl is his preferred medium, profiles collector subcultures, and recounts his adventures assembling the Alton Abraham Sun Ra Archive, an event so all-consuming that he claims it cured his record-collecting addiction. Perfect for vinyl newbies and veteran crate diggers alike, "Vinyl Freak" plumbs the motivations that drive Corbett and collectors everywhere. show lessTags
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John Corbett is a music critic, record producer, and curator. He is the author of Microgroove: Forays into Other Music and Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein, both also published by Duke University Press, and A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation. His writing has appeared in DownBeat, Bomb, Nka, and numerous other show more publications. He is the co-owner of Corbett vs. Dempsey, an art gallery in Chicago. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2017
- Publisher's editor
- Wissoker, Ken
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- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 780.26 — Arts & recreation Music Music Miscellany; texts; treatises on music scores and recordings Texts; treatises on music scores and recordings
- LCC
- ML1055 .C74 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Instruments and instrumental music
- BISAC
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- 24
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 3
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