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Dust & grooves : adventures in record collecting

by Eilon Paz

Photographer Eilon Paz profiles vinyl record collectors through photographic essays and interviews. The volume documents the private collections and motivations of world-renowned figures like Questlove alongside everyday enthusiasts.

Accession 9781607748694 ISBN 9781607748694 Publisher Ten Speed Press

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Topics and Themes

1. **The Psychology & Culture of Collecting**
Paz's interviews probe what drives collectors to keep searching for more records — revealing obsession, identity, and the deeply personal meaning people attach to physical objects. Collectors range from everyday enthusiasts to world-renowned DJs and producers, each with their own motivations and emotional relationship to their collections.

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2. **Vinyl & Recorded Sound as Cultural Artifact**
The book treats vinyl records not merely as music delivery systems but as physical objects with histories — rare pressings, limited editions, and genre-specific troves become cultural documents. The collectors' rooms function almost as personal archives or museums.

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3. **Music Genres, Subcultures & Scene History**
The collections documented span an enormous range of genres — from Turkish psychedelia and West African music to hip-hop, soul, jazz-funk, and 1960s girl groups — situating each genre within a living subculture and fan community.

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4. **Photography as Documentary Practice**
Paz approaches this project as a photographer first, pairing intimate portraiture with interview-driven narrative. The book raises questions about how photography can capture private spaces, personal passion, and human character in non-fiction storytelling.

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5. **Global Music Exchange & Cultural Transmission**
Paz traveled across the world — from New York to West Africa to Japan — tracing how music crosses borders, how collectors seek out sounds from distant cultures, and how records become vessels of global cultural exchange.

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6. **Identity, Taste & Self-Expression Through Objects**
The record rooms documented in the book are deeply personal spaces — curated reflections of their owners' identities, memories, and values. The collection becomes an extension of the self, a form of autobiography told through objects.

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7. **Community, Belonging & Subcultural Tribes**
The vinyl world portrayed is not just a hobby but a community — one built on shared passion, mutual mentorship, and collective identity. The book captures the social networks that form around record digging, from record fairs to online communities.

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8. **Analog vs. Digital & the Resurgence of Physical Media**
At its heart, the book is a celebration of a physical format in an era of digital streaming — making it an implicit argument for the value of tactile, imperfect, analog media and the culture it sustains.

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