Contents
Acknowledgements 7
List of Figures 8
Introduction 11
Karin Bijsterveld and José van Dijck
part i • STORING SOUND
Chapter One
Storing Sound Souvenirs: The Multi-Sited Domestication of the
Tape Recorder 25
Karin Bijsterveld and Annelies Jacobs
Chapter Two
Tape Cassettes and Former Selves: How Mix Tapes Mediate Memories 43
Bas Jansen
Chapter Three
The Preservation Paradox in Digital Audio 55
Jonathan Sterne
part ii • AUDITORY NOSTALGIA
Chapter Four
Taking Your Favorite Sound Along: Portable Audio Technologies for
Mobile Music Listening 69
Heike Weber
Chapter Five
The Auditory Nostalgia of iPod Culture 83
Michael Bull
Chapter Six
Performance and Nostalgia on the Oldies Circuit 94
Timothy D. Taylor
Chapter Seven
Remembering Songs through Telling Stories: Pop Music as a Resource
for Memory 107
José van Dijck
part iii • TECHNOSTALGIA
Chapter Eight
Tuning in Nostalgic Wavelengths: Transistor Memories Set To Music 123
Andreas Fickers
Chapter Nine
Pulled out of Thin Air? The Revival of the Theremin 139
Hans-Joachim Braun
Chapter Ten
Technostalgia: How Old Gear Lives on in New Music 152
Trevor Pinch and David Reinecke
part iv • EARWITNESSING
Chapter Eleven
Earwitnessing: Sound Memories of the Nazi Period 169
Carolyn Birdsall
Chapter Twelve
All the Names: Soundscapes, Recording Technology, and the
Historical Sensation 182
Ruth Benschop
References 199
List of Contributors 216