Foreword / Kimerly Rorschach 9
Curator's Acknowledgments / Trevor Schoonmaker 11
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl / Trevor Schoonmaker 14
Record Timeline / Trevor Schoonmaker 48
Guided by Grooves: How Records Changed Music / Piotr Orlov 62
Beware of Gramomania: The Pleasures and Pathologies of Record Collecting /
Mark Katz 68
Home of the Blues, House of Sounds: The Record Store / Charles McGovern 78
Just for the Record: Vinyl Rules / Carlo McCormick 86
Digging in the Crates / Mark Anthony Neal 96
El Disco Es Cultura / Josh Kun 106
The Record in Jamaica / Vivien Goldman 116
Needle to the Groove: Snippets from an Omnidirectional History / Jeff Chang
124
Do-It-Yourself / Barbara London 138
New Feeling / Jennifer Kabat 142
N. C. Noise / Mac McCaughan 154
Blazing Hip-Hop and R&B / Dave Tompkins 158
Yesterday and Today / Luc Sante 158
Cover to Cover 168
Exhibition Checklist and Artists' Statements 184
Artists' Biographies 202
Extended Playlist / Trevor Schoonmaker 212
Selected Bibliography 215
Timeline Reproduction Credits 216
