Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter

Elodie A. Roy

doi:10.1017/9789048553143

Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture

Unsettled Matter

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Elodie A. Roy

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9789048553143
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048553143

Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Sociology

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This book charts the unsettled media cultures and deep time of shellac, retracing its journey from the visual to the sonic, and back again. Each chapter unveils a situated moment in the long history of shellac - travelling from its early visual culture to Emile Berliner's discovery of its auditory properties through to its recycling in contemporary art and design practices. Unforeseen correspondences between artefacts as diverse as mirrors, seals, gramophone discs and bombs are revealed. With its combinatory approach and commitment to material thinking, Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture insists on moments of contact, encounter, and transformation. The book notably addresses the colonial unconscious underpinning the early transnational recording industry, highlighting the multiple gestures and forms of labour entombed within the production of the 78rpm disc. Roy explores shellac as a concrete substance, as well as the malleable stuff of which stories, histories and modern imaginings were made - and unmade.

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Unsettled Matter

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

List of illustrations
pp 7-8

Acknowledgements
pp 9-10

Introduction: From material culture to the materials of culture
pp 11-38

1 - Sheen: Early stories and circulation of shellac
pp 39-62

2 - Crackle: Assembling the record
pp 63-102

3 - Mirrors: Phono-fetishism and intersensory visions
pp 103-138

4 - Detonations: Shellac at war
pp 139-168

5 - Shards: Waste, obsolescence, and contemporary remediations
pp 169-200

Conclusion: Sonic sculptures
pp 201-216

Bibliography
pp 217-232

Index
pp 233-240

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