The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store

Introduction
Prologue: The Record Store That Saved My Life
Mark Trehus, Independent Scholar/Record Store Owner, USA

Part 1: Record Stores as Community
1 "We 'Bout it 'Bout it": The Independent Record Store in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Jay Jolles, College of William and Mary, USA
2 Firecorner: The Importance of Reggae Record Shops in Black London and the Cultural Confluence of West Indian Music
Kenny Monrose, Cambridge University, UK
3 Journey of a Girl in a Plaid Skirt and Knee Socks
Holly Gleason, Independent Scholar, USA
4 The Cult of the Record Bar
Stephen Shearon, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
5 Magic in Here: Brisbane's Alternative Record Stores From the 1970s to the Digital Age
Ben Green, Griffith University, Australia
6 High Fidelity Across Twenty-Five Years: Record Shops, Taste, and Streaming
Jon Stratton, University of South Australia, Australia
7 Reflections from the Girls Behind the Counter: Women and Independent Record Stores
Lee Ann Fullington, Brooklyn College CUNY, USA

Part 2: Cultural Geography of Record Stores
8 "Ways of living": Touristification and Gentrification in Spanish and Portuguese Record Shops
Fernan Del Val, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
9 Living Popular Music in "high fidelity:" Portugal's Independent Record Stores 1998-2020
Paula Guerra, University of Porto, Portugal
10 Music on the Turntables When the Tables are Turning: A History of Record Stores in Romania from Late Socialism to the Present
Claudiu Oancea, New Europe College, Romania
11 Jazzhole: How a Record Store Became the Lone Priest of Nigerian Oldies' Pop Culture
Eromo Egbejule, Malmoe University, Sweden
12 The Influence of Imported Records and their Stores on the History of Popular Music in Japan
Ken Kato, Osaka University, Japan
13 Recording the Irish Experience: The Record Shop and Fair as Archive
Paul Tarpey, Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland
14 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, It Will Be Taped: Popular Music Acquisition in Pre- and Post-Revolution Tehran
Lily Moayeri, Independent Scholar, USA

Part 3: Sites for Fandom and Performance of Subcultural Capital
15 Making Indie Noises in the Corporate Outlet: Beating Capitalism at Its Own Game
Roy Montgomery, Lincoln University, New Zealand
16 Rip Off Records (Hamburg) and the Microhistory of Capitalism
Karl Siebengartner, Independent Scholar, Germany
17 Soul Bowl: Rare Soul Uncovered
Christopher Spinks, University of East Anglia, UK
18 Lucky Records - Music Makes the People Come Together
Mariana Lins, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
19 Rough Trade Paris (1992-1999): The History of a Scene
Jean Foubert, LARCA Universite Paris-Cite, France
20 Musicians in the Record Store: Celebrity Encounters Through Amoeba Music's What's in My Bag?
Christine Feldman-Barrett, Griffith University, Australia
21 "Contents Expected to Speak for Themselves:" A Preliminary Understanding of North American Self Service Record Retail
Tim J. Anderson, Old Dominion University, USA
22 Lost in the Booth: British Record Store Listening Booths as Atmospheric Sites of Intimacy
Peter Jachimiak, University of South Wales, UK

Contributors
Index