Sticky fingers and smudged sound: vinyl records and the mess of media hygiene

IF 1.1 2区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-03-15 DOI:10.1080/15295036.2022.2043556

Rachel Plotnick

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Looking historically at cleanliness, care practices, and accessories, this article examines how a variety of actors—from record listeners and music journalists to inventors, advertisers, and corporations—grappled with the problem of cleaning vinyl records in the pursuit of “clean sound” in the period between the 1950s and 1970s. Detailing how washing and preserving records became a commercialized, scientific, and often gendered caretaking process for collectors, the piece makes the case for studying under-explored dimensions of music production/consumption related to housekeeping, preservation, and embodied practices. To this end, the article offers the concept of “media hygiene” as a tool for initiating broader discussions in media studies about fragility and the role of mess in everyday media interactions. Thinking with media hygiene provides insight into the ways that people are encouraged to take responsibility for media technologies’ lifespan.

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黏糊糊的手指和污浊的声音:黑胶唱片和媒体卫生的混乱

从历史上看，清洁，护理实践和配件，本文研究了20世纪50年代至70年代期间，从唱片听众和音乐记者到发明家，广告商和公司的各种演员如何努力解决清洁黑胶唱片的问题，以追求“干净的声音”。详细介绍了清洗和保存唱片如何成为收藏家的商业化，科学化和经常性别化的护理过程，该作品研究了与家务，保存和具体化实践相关的音乐制作/消费的未被探索的维度。为此，本文提出了“媒介卫生”的概念，作为媒介研究中关于脆弱性和混乱在日常媒介互动中的作用的更广泛讨论的工具。从媒体卫生的角度思考，可以洞察人们被鼓励为媒体技术的生命周期负责的方式。

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Critical Studies in Media Communication COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. CSMC takes an inclusive view of media and welcomes scholarship on topics such as • media audiences • representations • institutions • digital technologies • social media • gaming • professional practices and ethics • production studies • media history • political economy. CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It takes an inclusive view of media, including newspapers, magazines and other forms of print, cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet.