This article aims to develop an anti-reductionist approach to two non-elite collecting realms: popular music and old computers. The article applies a configurational perspective by focusing on a set of psychological, sociological, economic, and educational collectors’ motives. These four motivational categories are operationalized in terms of ego-enlargement, augmentation of social status, speculation in view of profit, and acquiring and transmitting knowledge about the collectibles concerned. They may also be conceived as various forms of profit: psychological, sociological, economic, and educational profit. Music fans collect particular formats of music supports, genres, performers, record labels, producers, or combinations of these chara...
Abstract. The article is a study into exotic record collecting as a manifestation of memory-based id...
In this presentation, music fans are characterised as cultural intermediaries who have important rol...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the material nature of legacy technology makes...
Abstract: The twentieth century ended with the widespread conversion of cultural artefacts into digi...
The article is a study of music fans and primarily concerns the objects collected by these people. T...
The rekindling popularity of the vinyl record and record collecting provide a counternarrative to th...
This article examines the contemporary role of archives in relation to the curation and preservation...
This article presents a case study of how obsolete vinyl records are transformed into concert souven...
In this article I explore the ‘unofficial’ (and technically illegal) compiling of marginally known ...
In this article, I will examine the internet through the lens of consumption and waste studies. The ...
This article looks at modes of visitor engagement in a music museum setting. As curator for a galler...
While there has been growing interest in the curation and exhibition of popular music ephemera in re...
This article examines the challenges of sustainability faced by community archives and museums that ...
This thesis considers the positioning and re‐positioning of vinyl records and those that collect th...
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Abstract. The article is a study into exotic record collecting as a manifestation of memory-based id...
In this presentation, music fans are characterised as cultural intermediaries who have important rol...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the material nature of legacy technology makes...
Abstract: The twentieth century ended with the widespread conversion of cultural artefacts into digi...
The article is a study of music fans and primarily concerns the objects collected by these people. T...
The rekindling popularity of the vinyl record and record collecting provide a counternarrative to th...
This article examines the contemporary role of archives in relation to the curation and preservation...
This article presents a case study of how obsolete vinyl records are transformed into concert souven...
In this article I explore the ‘unofficial’ (and technically illegal) compiling of marginally known ...
In this article, I will examine the internet through the lens of consumption and waste studies. The ...
This article looks at modes of visitor engagement in a music museum setting. As curator for a galler...
While there has been growing interest in the curation and exhibition of popular music ephemera in re...
This article examines the challenges of sustainability faced by community archives and museums that ...
This thesis considers the positioning and re‐positioning of vinyl records and those that collect th...
All authors and readers have the right to download, copy, distribute, modify, create derivative work...
Abstract. The article is a study into exotic record collecting as a manifestation of memory-based id...
In this presentation, music fans are characterised as cultural intermediaries who have important rol...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the material nature of legacy technology makes...