![]() ![]() There are all these different ways you can mediate a very emotional experience to make it more concrete, more digestible, or less scary. ![]() So collecting and organizing is a way of trying to de-fang those intense emotions and also figure them out through meticulous research, learning as much as they can about the record, owning the record. For a man to hear a song and be moved to tears by it, I think it can be a frightening experience or maybe an experience he has not been socialized to find acceptable. With men, it’s a little more complicated. ![]() We’re socialized that it’s okay for us to do that. But socioculturally speaking, just in my experience, I think women are more comfortable listening to music and having an emotional reaction to it. I always get nervous talking about this because these are such big generalities. There is something uncomfortable, I think, for a lot of people, myself included, about that exchange. Music Directing/Conducting credits include Savage the Musical with 2019 NYMF, Les Misérables & Mary Poppins at MPAC. It’s these privileged white people collecting this music from disenfranchised African Americans. Formerly a staff accompanist at The Juilliard School in New York, NY, Kevin is a cum laude Latin honors graduate of William Paterson University where he studied music education with a concentration in classical piano and voice. They’re coming from a place of extraordinary privilege for sure. Most collectors are white men who started collecting in the second half of the 20th century and have enough money to travel and buy records. It’s frustrating for me as music fan and critic, because I’ll be like, “Wait, there are all these amazing people making amazing records,” and they have no interest in them. Everything that came after that, they don’t even want to know about it because they think it’s garbage. A lot of these guys had no interest in modern or contemporary music at all.įor them, it ended with World War II, or with Hank Williams. Your collection becomes a way of insulating yourself from the facets of modernity that you find distasteful, unsustainable, or not nourishing. Richard Nevins, who runs the 78 reissue label Yazoo Records, sits in his personal record room.Īmanda Petrusich: I think a lot of collectors end up turning to 78 rpm records because they feel alienated by modern culture or not satisfied by it in some ways. ![]()
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