Record Store Research Articles

Changing the Record? The (re)Making of Rock ‘n’ Roll, ‘Race’ and Teenage Leisure in 1950s Cleveland

AbstractThis paper aims to explore, and reframe, the relations between rock ‘n’ roll, leisure, ‘race’ and youth in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1950s, utilizing archival research to question the heritagization of the city’s popular music histories. Specifically drawing upon accounts of radio broadcasting and vinyl records, we offer an archival study of Cleveland, Ohio, a city that claims to be the “birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll” and (since 1986) is the site of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. After contextualizing the 1950s, we conceptualize the recent archival (re)turn in socio-cultural research. Through this methodological lens we overview the special collections, documents and artefacts explored in fieldwork at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Library and Archives. Then, three counter-stories are presented toward decentring and demythologizing the canonical history of rock ‘n’ roll in Cleveland. Against this canonization, we “change the record” of histories of local radio broadcasting, record stores and eyewitness accounts from Cleveland’s black teenage audiences often absent from many authorized heritage discourses of early rock ‘n’ roll. In deconstructing myths of Cleveland’s musical past, the paper frames archival research as a critical, if under-utilized resource, in leisure research.

Serious Games for Vocational Training

The research project ‘SG4BB’ (Serious Games for Vocational Education and Training; abbr.: VET) has developed an integrated platform for the description, search, retrieval, integration, and utilization of educational games. This paper summarizes project outcomes, including platform concepts, software components, and – as focus – practical insights derived from a case study involving the educational game ‘Corrugated’ as simulation and training environment for service technicians. SG4BB has followed a user-centered design in an interdisciplinary project team: Two learning providers specified their requirements for VET in their specific application domains. Based on those requirements, game developers, learning solution providers and researchers for VET have conceptualized and prototypically implemented both an integrated learning platform (SG4BB platform) and two case studies of Serious Games for VET: ‘Corrugated’ for service technicians and an IT security game. The platform follows a process pipeline: For search and retrieval of educational games for VET, an application profile for VET based on the standardized ‘Serious Games Metadata Format’ (DIN/SPEC 91380) has been elaborated. This format builds the semantic basis for the metadata-based catalog system ‘Serious Games Information Center’ (SG-IC) with filter functionality for VET. Learning providers and developers can use the SG-IC portal to describe and promote their educational games, enabling users to identify suitable games for their learning needs and integrate them via learning infrastructure. Educational games can interact with the backend (Learning Management System and Learning Record Store) through a middleware based on the xAPI standard, allowing for personalized gameplay and data collection for game-based learning analytics. The final evaluation of the SG4BB project focused on the utilization of the educational game ‘Corrugated’, targeting problem-solving skills for service technicians in the corrugated cardboard industry. Data from 26 participants playing the game for 60 minutes, along with problem-solving tests and user experience feedback, were analyzed to validate game-based assessment and to assess learning impact. Initial results reveal insights into specific game missions, playtimes, and success rates, indicating that participant behavior during gameplay influenced perceived learning progress, leading to varied learning paths. This paper provides valuable insights and technical information for VET practitioners on using educational games for training. Game interactions and learning outcomes can be monitored via a dashboard within the learning infrastructure, offering visualizations for user behavior (during play) and (learning) progress. Keywords: serious games, vocational education and training, metadata, middleware, case study and evaluation.

A secure interoperable method for electronic health records exchange on cross platform blockchain network

An Electronic Health Record (EHR) store essential and sensitive patient's medical information. Since health information is highly confidential data, it should be accessible with the consent of the patient. Blockchain based EHR management system offers improvised privacy and patient-centric approach. EHR management systems are available with multiple blockchain platforms. Generally, EHRs are maintained at several independent blockchain platforms. EHR management systems should be capable of securely exchange data on cross platform blockchain network. The interoperability in such blockchain platforms should facilitate seamless cross-chain interaction and information exchange. This article proposes a method that facilitates secure EHR exchange on Ethereum and Hyperledger fabric network using hepatitis dataset. The key contributions of the proposed method include:•Hash lock based interoperable cross-chain method for EHR exchange across Ethereum and Hyperledger fabric.•Additional security to the EHR is ensured by partitioning EHR as on-chain (blockchain platform) and off-chain InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)•Secure Password Authentication-Based Key Exchange (SPAKE) based session management for EHR exchange across two parties.The proposed patient centric method is validated to ensures the successful exchange of patient EHR across Ethereum and Hyperledger fabric.

Lightlore: An Adaptation Framework for Design and Development of xAPI-Based Adaptive Context-Aware Learning Environments

The age of pervasive computing has initiated a boom in the development of adaptive context-aware learning environments (ACALEs), i.e., systems that are capable of detecting a learner’s context and providing adaptive learning services based on this context. Many of the existing educational systems were developed as standalone applications for specific or a small range of adaptive educational scenarios. It would be extremely helpful for developers and educators to have a unified framework that provides an infrastructure for the development of ACALEs. In this study, we propose Lightlore—an adaptation framework that enables the development of different types of ACELEs for a wide range of learning scenarios in formal and informal settings. We first used scenario-based design (SBD) as the design methodology for creating a conceptual model of Lightlore. Educational scenarios were adopted from the results of a previous literature review. We then developed a proof-of-concept implementation of Lightlore, with a hypermedia system for learning data structures that uses the adaptation service of Lightlore. This implementation is essentially an adaptation infrastructure and a programming API for creating new (or transforming existing) adaptive and context-aware educational services. It exploits the experience API (xAPI), a modern e-learning standard and learning record store, thus making coupling with existing learning environments easier. We expect that diverse types of users will benefit from using Lightlore, such as learners, educators, learning environment developers, and researchers on educational technologies.

Implementation of Sanctions for Health Facilities that Have Not Implemented Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

Hospitals are health care institutions that provide inpatient, outpatient, and emergency services. One of the services in the hospital is medical record services. This medical record stores various records regarding the identity, examination, treatment, actions, and other services performed on the patient. Along with the development of technology, medical records are present in digital form or called Electronic Medical Records (RME). The purpose of this study is to analyze sanctions for health facilities that have not implemented Electronic Medical Records (RME). The research method used is a literature review with a qualitative approach. The results show that with the regulatory provisions and sanctions, the implementation of RME is expected to improve the overall standard of health services. In accordance with circular number HK.02.01/MENKES/1030/2023, health facilities that do not comply with the RME implementation deadline may face administrative sanctions, including recommendations for revocation of accreditation status. These sanctions also apply to health facilities that have not integrated with the SATUSEHAT Platform by March 2024 or have not submitted patient visit data as required. This regulation is not only a guide, but also an encouragement for health service delivery to become more sophisticated, efficient, and safe through the implementation of RME.

Roots Routes: Japan, Jamaica, and the Global Flows of Vintage Reggae Vinyl

This article excavates the historical, cultural, and music industrial significance of the buying and selling of Jamaican vinyl records in Japan. It reveals an unexpected connection between alternative distribution flows and the persistence of material music in the digital era. The Japanese market for Jamaican records exposes an under-theorized distribution relationship between two island nations on opposite sides of the globe. The durability of this market—launched by amateurs in the 1980s and nurtured into a productive and ongoing discourse—suggests that the materiality of Jamaican vinyl has particular meanings in Japanese culture and that Japan has played an important role in the preservation of Jamaican vinyl. Research consists of interviews with Japanese reggae fans, record store owners, and artists, conducted at reggae record stores throughout Tokyo, Japan. Studying these connections is important because it reorients our approach to flows of music and requires an engagement with the materiality of music-industrial products despite digital distribution’s growing hegemony.

The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke by Gavin Dixon

Reviewed by: The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke by Gavin Dixon Peter J. Schmelz The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke. By Gavin Dixon. (Routledge Russian and East European Music and Culture.) (Routledge Handbooks.) New York: Routledge, 2022. [xviii, 315 p. ISBN 9780367222468 (hardcover), $250; also available as e-book, ISBN and price vary.] Illustrations, music. In summer 2022, Amoeba Music, arguably the best independent record store chain in the United States, published its annual Music We Like zine. One item from its lists of recommended recordings—by Felix (no last name given), a staff member from Berkeley, California—featured this endorsement of Daniel Hope and Alekseĭ Botvinov's release of Schnittke's violin and piano music: "Nothing on this compilation is predictable, for Alfred Schnittke's music is multifaceted and quite entertaining. His skills involved adopting old traditional music into contemporary form without concern [for] any one idiom. Easily one of the most underrated and overlooked composers of the 20th century. I encourage you to embrace this captivating assortment of Schnittke works. Your ears will gape with wonderment" (http://www.amoeba.com/music/music-we-like, "2022 – Summer," p. 41 [accessed 9 September 2022], referring to Deutsche Grammophon, DG 483 9234 [2021], CD). Listeners captivated by Schnittke's music and eager for further information on his Suite in the Old Style, Violin Sonata no. 1, or any of the other compositions on Hope and Botvinov's disc now have a reliable Englishlanguage source to consult: Gavin Dixon's Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke. Yet this reference volume is by no means for neophytes alone. Dixon has established himself as an authoritative guide to Schnittke's output as the author of, among other things, an innovative dissertation ("Polystylism as Dialogue: A Bakhtinian Interpretation of Schnittke's Symphonies 3, 4, and His Concerto Grosso No. 4/Symphony No. 5," PhD diss., Goldsmiths, University of London, 2007) and as editor of (and contributor to) Schnittke Studies (New York: Routledge, 2017). A student of the late Alexander Ivashkin, a pioneering figure in Schnittke advocacy and research, Dixon also has deep familiarity with the many sketches and scores in the Ivashkin–Schnittke Archive at Goldsmiths, University of London. His Schnittke handbook is based on these and other primary and secondary sources, including the significant collection of Schnittke drafts and sketches in the Juilliard Manuscript Collection. A listener to Hope and Botvinov's disc looking for Schnittke's violin and piano compositions in Dixon's handbook would be in luck, and they won't need to flip many pages to find them [End Page 382] all. Organized by genre, the handbook collects all of Schnittke's music for violin and piano in the same section. The bulk of the volume consists of capsule accounts of each and every Schnittke composition, major and minor, in all their versions and arrangements. These entries are, in effect, very thorough program notes (several originated as program and liner notes [p. xvii]). Each provides basic details about the work's composition history, first performance, form, structure, motives, harmony, salient stylistic elements, as well as commentary on any texts. Each entry also contains scrupulous documentation of revisions and any variations between autograph score and published editions. Most of the analyses are brief, but Dixon knows Schnittke's music well and has a keen ear and eye for telling details. It is true that some descriptions betray a certain dutifulness (e.g., Drei Gedichte von Viktor Schnittke for tenor and piano [pp. 97–98]). But others are more extensive, the fruits of a prolonged engagement, particularly those for the symphonies, Peer Gynt, Life with an Idiot, and the Piano Quintet, to name but a few. The handbook synthesizes available sources, compiling and collating material from the dominant interpretative studies in Russian, German, and English, including foundational works by Ivashkin, Valentina Chigareva, Valentina Nikolaevna Kholopova, and Jürgen Köchel. Dixon carefully presents all sides of any disputes or interpretative puzzles, often letting dissonant interpretations remain unresolved (e.g., my difference of opinion with Ivashkin over Schnittke's indebtedness to socialist realism in his early compositions [p. 74]). When combined with the evidence from Schnittke...

House of Golden Records: Portugal’s Independent Record Stores (1998–2020)

In this article, we explore the importance of Portuguese independent record stores by highlighting their role as catalysts of scenes and sociabilities, specifically in the major cities of Lisbon and Porto. We examine how these stores can be understood not only as spaces of consumption, but also as places where rituals are enacted and communities of taste are built. We focus on several levels of analysis: the emergence of a new economic rationale based on curation and collecting, the vinyl revival and the stores’ complex relationship with the technological and digital revolution. The methodology used is ethnographic analysis, with observations carried out in ten stores, complemented by interviews with owners and customers. We demonstrate that record stores began to offer not only objects for purchase, but experiences associated with cultural objects and new cultural practices based on the valorization of the object and craftsmanship, as well as the phenomenon of curation in the cultural world. We then analyse independent record stores as spaces of resistance against the dematerialization of music. The emergence of a new aspirational economy is explored, based on curation and on being in the present, rebuffing the Veblenian rationale of ostentation. In music scenes, curation demands legitimacy, so in the independent record stores studied, curation strategies are developed on three levels: spatial, individual and local. In the third section, we examine independent record stores as spaces of rituals because they combine the existence of a totem, the relevance of a space loaded with symbolic density and the presence of social actors who carry out the rituals in this symbolic space—that is, social actors with subcultural capital in the music scene(s). In the last section, we dissect the relationship between independent record stores and their local context, exploring issues of local curation, in particular, the legitimacy associated with belonging to a specific place.

Design of Voice Command Access Using Matlab

Abstract: This particular project is mainly deals with security and access to a device. As the present generation the technology was increasing rapidly. The security for the electronic devices is also increasing highly. There are different types of security was implemented for the electronic devices. They are: Biometric, Iris Scan, Facial Recognition and Voice Recognition We preferably think Voice Recognition is more secured when compared. So we are designing a voice Access Module. For which we are using Audio processing subject on a lighter note. The central idea of the project is to use MATLAB software and record few people audio and store them as a data- base. Now the task to be done by design is when a person tries to open system with his voice command, the design need to verify that particular audio with the database created. The design allows the person only when he is one of the authorized persons, in else case it recognizes that the one is an intruder.

“Taking a chance on a record”: lost vinyl consumption practices in the age of music streaming

ABSTRACT In the age of music streaming, the physicality of vinyl has never been so appealing. While studies have focused on the medium itself and the record store as a static site of consumption, this article explores lost vinyl consumption practices that traverse time and space via consumers’ nostalgic recollections. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 active consumers of vinyl who are members of the UK indie pop music scene using their chosen album artwork as props to stimulate discussion. The findings from the thematic data analysis reveal a trajectory of practices centered on the purchase of records and the effort of acquiring and appreciating vinyl over time. This article contributes new insights into materiality and consumption by foregrounding the role of nostalgia and temporality in shaping consumers’ long-term relationship with legacy technological objects and determining how consumption practices are re-contextualized in times of personal and cultural discontinuities.

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Proprietary Software Management System for Educational Institutes

Abstract: This College Management System project developed using specific programming languages. The main aim of this project is to develop an online website which covers all the details of college i.e., Student attendance details, Event details, Students fees transaction details, Marks details, Photo gallery, etc. Admin is the Super user of this project. All the record stores in MySQL Database. The proposed software will also reduce the cumbersome paperwork, manual labor as well as communication cost. The main objective of College Management System project is to provide an easy way to automate all record keeping work in the college. This project provides user friendly environment to the operator and admin. This college automation project is a simple yet powerful application for managing large number of student data. With this application admin can maintain record of students, courses, fee payment, library book record and students mark in different semesters. It also allows admin to generate various reports for decision making

Shelter skelter: record stores during the pandemic and the new selling of old stuff

In this essay I draw on observations about how the pandemic impacted sales of vinyl records, in order to describe a (further) dis-embedding of brick-and-mortar second-hand stores from their local economies and communities. Before the pandemic, the majority of vinyl was already being purchased online; while buyers and sellers were sheltering in place, the vinyl marketplace’s reliance on the internet became total, and vinyl traffic skewed more than ever toward used records. Nearly all record stores had an online presence before the pandemic, and shops that already had an online sales system in place and a customer base accustomed to buying online had an enormous head start toward staying solvent while sheltering in place. During the pandemic, Instagram joined sites like Discogs and eBay as a platform for vinyl sales, and social media graduated from primarily functioning as a means of promotion for record stores and became a requisite component of sales infrastructure. I ask how local merchants of vintage goods like records can maintain a local orientation despite shifting away from local customers.

Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland by Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett

Reviewed by: Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland by Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett David Woken Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett, Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. xi, 238 pp. $22.95 (paper). In Punks in Peoria, Jonathan Wright's and Dawson Barrett's account of the underground youth music scene in Peoria, Illinois, Gared O'Donnell of local band Planes Mistaken for Stars remarks on their decision to move to Denver: "I guess in your early twenties … Peoria was a great place to be from, but it wasn't a great place to stay" (171). Many of us who first encountered underground music in the declining Rust Belt towns that dotted the Midwest did indeed find our hometowns better places to be from than to stay, and Wright's and Barrett's account of youth seeking escape from the stifling confines of their culturally conservative and economically stagnating surroundings is a welcome addition to studies that complicate canonical accounts of punk rock and broader do-it-yourself (DIY) youth culture that focus on the most famous bands and major cities. "There is no obvious place for Peoria in the punk rock pantheon" (7), they note, yet the story they [End Page 85] tell makes a powerful argument for paying attention to peripheral cultural scenes around the world, and it provides useful context to understand how discontented midwestern youth sought creative expression amid the economic and social changes sweeping the industrial heartland. Based on local news reports, zines, social media reminiscences, and, most importantly, interviews with a wide range of participants in the Peoria DIY scene, Punks in Peoria tells a rollicking story of youth culture in a town that is synonymous with conservative middle-American values and tastes. The book chronicles bands that enjoyed local notoriety but largely failed to burst onto the national stage. Shows thrown together in diverse spaces (fairgrounds, college gymnasia, record stores, skate parks, rented VFW and American Legion halls, short-lived all-ages night clubs, private houses, and even an abandoned mental hospital) occupied informal spaces familiar to those who experienced similar small-town scenes. Enlivening the text are colorful profiles of local characters like long-running shock artist Bloody F. Mess, explanations of local slang like the regional term for an outsider teen ("cornchip"), and descriptions of short-lived show spaces that entered local legend like the Airwaves skate park and anarchopunk Tiamat Records. The authors also provide accounts of legendary shows by internationally famous (or infamous) acts that demonstrate how DIY culture offended the sensibilities of staid Midwesterners while offering ecstatic liberation to the young. These included GG Allin's scatological 1985 performance that saw him chased off by police and Legionnaires after just two songs, and a 1999 show by anarchist metallic hardcore provocateurs Catharsis that ended in the band leading the audience into the alley behind Tiamat for a round of impromptu drumming and fire-dancing that stopped only when police arrived to shut the event down. Wright's and Barrett's focus remains firmly on telling details and anecdotes about the local musicians, zinesters, and show organizers who built and re-built their scene, and their stories make for entertaining and engrossing material. The opening chapter paints a vivid picture of pre-1980s Peoria, an industrial town of breweries, distilleries, and the Caterpillar tractor factory, and home to a strong union tradition. But it was also one of the most segregated cities in the nation (a fact noted in the stand-up comedy of the town's most famous son, Richard Pryor) and one with a reputation for conservative, middlebrow sensibilities despite the fact that it had long been a stop for vaudeville and blues musicians traveling between Chicago and St. Louis. Yet this sort of big picture falls short in much of the rest of [End Page 86] the book when they consider DIY youth culture. They do succinctly sum up one of the core tensions in punk rock, between nihilistic rejection and positive change, by contrasting Bloody Mess's shock antics with the positive DIY spirit of Peoria's first hardcore punk band...

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A Forgivable Enthusiasm

A Forgivable Enthusiasm

Adaptive Learning Supported by Learning Analytics for Student Teachers’ Personalized Training during in-School Practices

This paper presents the results of the second phase of the international project “Improving Educational Innovation, Competitiveness, and Quality of Higher Education through Collaboration between University and Companies (EKT)”. The use of adaptive learning supported by learning analytics is proposed as a pedagogical strategy to work on the collaborative and personalized learning process that takes place during the school placement period of initial teacher education. Learning analytics is expected to facilitate the analysis of the different sources of information and data generated in the learning process. The collected data will be centralized in a learning record store (LRS), which will serve as a repository for xAPI compatible traces from the tools that make up EKT intelligent system. The system is expected to provide a strong support to decision-making so that participant agents can collaborate, advise, and contribute to the future teacher’s personalized training according to his or her progress and the context in which the practice takes place. The need analysis of tutors in the five pilot countries is presented, which has made it possible to define the process variables that make up the learning analysis architecture of the EKT system.

Review: Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, by Daphne A. Brooks

Review: <i>Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound</i>, by Daphne A. Brooks

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Reason and Its Others in Coetzee's Jesus Novels

EBook Technology Facilitating University Education During COVID-19: Japanese Experience

UNESCO reported that 90% of students are affected in some way by COVID-19 pandemic. Like many countries, Japan too imposed emergency remote teaching and learning at both school and university level. In this study, we focus on a national university in Japan, and investigate how teaching and learning were facilitated during this pandemic period using an ebook platform, BookRoll, which was linked as an external tool to the university’s learning management system. Such an endeavor also reinforced the Japanese national thrust regarding explorations of e-book-based technologies and using Artificial Intelligence in education. Teachers could upload reading materials for instance their course notes and associate an audio of their lecture. While students who registered in their course accessed the learning materials, the system collected their interaction logs in a learning record store. Across the spring semesters from April - July 2020, BookRoll system collected nearly 1.5 million reading interaction logs from more than 6300 students across 243 courses in 6 domains. The analysis highlighted that during emergency remote teaching and learning BookRoll maintained a weekly average traffic above 1,900 learners creating more than 78,000 reading logs and teachers perceived it as useful for orchestrating their course.