The Comeback of the Medium: The History and Contemporary Revival of the Vinyl Record Industry by Guo Yiqian

“…As an important vehicle in the development of music and recording art, vinyl records have gone through a series of journeys from birth, and development to decline over the past hundred years. …”
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Geschichte in Scheiben. Schallplatten als zeithistorische Quellen by Bodo Mrozek

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The pragmatics and Semiotics Analysis of Vinyl Record Cover Art They Fell From The Sky's Album DECADE by Sigied Himawan Yudhanto, Faizal Risdianto

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Vinyl as Fine Wine: The Role of Expectation on the Perception of Music Format by Rickard Enstroem, Rodney Schmaltz

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Electronic music on show in museum context by Daniel Huber

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Alice’n Records / Adam Badruddin Syah by Adam, Badruddin Syah

“…The other store of Alice’n Records is located in Ampang which also has a record pressing plant where they produce vinyl records making the first ever company in Malaysia to press vinyl records. …”
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Mixing in Social Media by Bernie Hogan

“…This essay draws upon the social life of vinyl records as a means to consider social media as a set of many-to-many affordances rather than a suite of technologies. …”
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Saudade by .gif : a virtual & physical branding exploration by Tan, Nicole Jing Yi

“…“Saudade by .gif: A Virtual & Physical Branding Exploration” is a project that explores some of the recent design solutions that integrate virtual and physical music design, drawing inspiration from the artistry of vinyl records. With this purpose in mind, this project will be executed with the use of “Saudade”, an album by Singaporean electronic duo .gif. …”
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To have and to hold: touch and the vinyl resurgence by Harper, A

“…This article reviews a recent wave of literature on the resurgence of vinyl records, examining what it has claimed about vinyl's capacity for tangibility and the contrast to digital media, associated with intangibility. …”

Disco Time(and)Machines. Riascoltare la Disco music by Simone Dotto

“…Theoretical tools borrowed from Wolfgang Ernst’s understanding of media-archaeology will be applied to two different cases (vinyl records manipulation techniques and digital sampling in Nu Disco), highlighting differences and similarities in the use of analog and digital media for sound recording. …”
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GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE SOUND OF THE PIANO IN THE HUNGARIAN 5TH GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MUSIC LESSONS DURING THE 1960S by Henriett KISS

“…It is especially worth exploring the use of recorded music in the elementary schools of the 1960s because it was the first time in the history of listening to music in school which left not only written evidence to the researchers but also the actual vinyl records that students listened to during music lessons. …”
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Media consumption between dynamics and persistence: The meaning of persistent media practices in a mediatized everyday life by Jutta Röser, Jo Marie Dominiak

“…Thus, following the mediatization approach, we enfold the concept of the interplay of dynamics and persistence and transfer its theoretical ideas to two studies that deal with (1) the persistence of the TV in everyday media repertoires and (2) the persisting usage of vinyl records in the face of digital streaming services in everyday life. …”

The playful character of creative alphabets. The case of cover art between the 1930s and the 1970s by Francesca Fatta

“…And how is the creativity of alphabets related to the cover art of vinyl records? And yet there is a common thread called lettering, which is variously articulated in the expressiveness of the typographic characters of the artists. …”
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Música e Tecnologia, do Vinil ao MP3 by PAIVA, Eduardo

“…Therefore, it is necessary to have a clear view of these processes (starting with vinyl records until the digital possibilities of today) as well as to understand technology as one of the most important “expressive means” of sound creation.…”
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Olga Albizu’s Lyrical Abstraction and the Borders of the Canvas by Raquel Flecha Vega

“…However, existing scholarship has failed to capture the complex relationship between Albizu’s anti-commercial abstractionist aesthetic and its mass reproduction as cover art for vinyl records during the Cold War era. Returning to the canvas to explore the iconographic, formal, and aesthetic qualities of Albizu’s work within its sociohistorical post-World War II context, this study reveals Albizu’s devotion to formal borders, vivid color juxtapositions, and compositional tensions. …”
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The Influence of Music Genre on the Related Graphic Design by عفت السادات افضل طوسی, ronak farsi

“…It began with designing the cover of music, music sheets and posters, but after the invention of recording and audio systems, music related design continued and it could be found on the cover of vinyl records, audio cassettes, CDs and DVDs. The main focus of this article is the correlation of style in music and graphic design. …”
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It's not all about the music: Online fan communities and collecting Hard Rock Café pins by Lincoln Geraghty

“…Where studies have moved beyond the actual music and examined the fashion, concerts, and collecting ephemera such as vinyl records and posters, they have tended to remain closely allied to notions of subcultural distinction, emphasizing hierarchies of taste. …”
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Brick-and-Platform: Listing Labor in the Digital Vintage Economy by Tamara Kneese, Michael Palm

“…We focus on vintage clothes and vinyl records, dominated by women and men, respectively, to help us analyze divisions of listing labor organized by gender, race, age, and class. …”
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Review of Karin Bijsterveld and Jose van Dijck, eds. 2009. Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. by Geeta Dayal

“…Its contributors explore the cultural practices of archiving, collecting, resuscitating, and restoring past sounds in order to probe the links between sound and memory; this includes examining the ephemera surrounding recorded sound-reel-to-reel tapes, vinyl records, and so on-along with the sound-making devices themselves, old and new, from transistor radios to cassette recorders to iPods.…”
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Marlon V. del Rosario, MD (1956 – 2021) by Alberto Calderon

“…He found tapes and digitized sound inferior to vinyl records, and his vinyl record collection is still an envy of many. …”
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