{"title":"Presenting the Studio on Record Covers: Changing the Understanding of Swedish Jazz Records","authors":"Mischa van Kan","doi":"10.1080/03007766.2022.2123495","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes early Swedish jazz record covers to understand how producers and users comprehended the jazz record as a medium. It employs Jonathan Sterne’s definition of a medium as a social agreement about use. The article shows how, following the transition from shellac to vinyl records in Sweden in the 1950s, record covers reinterpreted the understanding of the jazz record. From seeing a record as a mediation of live music, users and producers started to see the record as an artifact that resulted from artistic work that had taken place in a recording studio.","PeriodicalId":46155,"journal":{"name":"POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY","volume":"45 1","pages":"446 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2022.2123495","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article analyzes early Swedish jazz record covers to understand how producers and users comprehended the jazz record as a medium. It employs Jonathan Sterne’s definition of a medium as a social agreement about use. The article shows how, following the transition from shellac to vinyl records in Sweden in the 1950s, record covers reinterpreted the understanding of the jazz record. From seeing a record as a mediation of live music, users and producers started to see the record as an artifact that resulted from artistic work that had taken place in a recording studio.
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Popular Music and Society, founded in 1971, publishes articles, book reviews, and audio reviews on popular music of any genre, time period, or geographic location. Popular Music and Society is open to all scholarly orientations toward popular music, including (but not limited to) historical, theoretical, critical, sociological, and cultural approaches. The terms "popular" and "society" are broadly defined to accommodate a wide range of articles on the subject. Recent and forthcoming Special Issue topics include: Digital Music Delivery, Cover Songs, the Music Monopoly, Jazz, and the Kinks. Popular Music and Society is published five times per year and is a peer-reviewed academic journal supported by an international editorial board.