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Schoop, Monika E. (2018). Putting a premium an music: Exploring the vinyl revival in the Philippines. Perfect Beat, 19 (1). S. 8 - 32. SHEFFIELD: EQUINOX PUBLISHING LTD. ISSN 1836-0343

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Abstract

The twenty-first century has seen a revival of the vinyl record in many parts of the world. Based on ethnographic research, I investigate its so-far unexplored resurgence in Metro Manila, the capital region of the Philippines, contending that vinyl is charged with social meanings and that revivals reimagine the past for the present. I examine vinyl's manifold social meanings and the reasons for its newfound popularity through a multidimensional enquiry into vinyl's status as a 'premium product' in the Philippine context. First, I consider developments in the music industry and socio-economic factors playing into the value and status of vinyl. Second, I probe vinyl's symbolic potential as a marker of social class, cosmopolitanism and urban lifestyle. Third, drawing on notions of technostalgia and vinyl's multisensory affordances, I examine how vinyl's status as a premium product is established and reinforced by the lifestyle stores Satchmi and Heima, which market records and their associated appliances. Lastly, I show how vinyl's status is actively employed to promote local independent music and to counter its marginalization in the Philippine mediascape.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schoop, Monika E. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-199245
DOI:	10.1558/prbt.35003
Journal or Publication Title:	Perfect Beat
Volume:	19
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 8 - 32
Date:	2018
Publisher:	EQUINOX PUBLISHING LTD
Place of Publication:	SHEFFIELD
ISSN:	1836-0343
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Music Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19924