Abstract
This chapter situates the topic within practices of music reuse and the concept of social lives and object biographies. It introduces the following five key themes appearing throughout the next chapters, before providing an overview of them:
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Archiving and curating sounds
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Collecting music
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Sampling
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Object agency
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Construction of personhood through music and material objects
These are recurrent themes, all of which interplay with ownership, subjectivity, agency, and personhood. They relate directly to the border between subject and object, human and nonhuman.
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Notes
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A soundtrack accompanies this book. The reader is encouraged to listen to the corresponding tracks when referenced in text. Recordings of the tracks are not provided for copyright reasons but all tracks are easily found online or can be purchased. The track listings are found on pages v–vii.
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Sampling is the process of taking small sections of larger recorded works and incorporating them into a new musical work. Sampling will be explained in greater detail in Chap. 4.
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Crate digger is a term used to refer to record collectors who often obsessively collect records and amass a large collection of vinyl. “Digging” refers to looking for records, and crate refers to the milk crates in which records are often stored.
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Maalsen, S. (2019). Entroducing. In: The Social Life of Sound. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3453-5_1
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