Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter

This book examines shellac’s evolution from early visual applications through Emile Berliner’s discovery of its audio properties to its contemporary artistic uses

Elodie A. Roy is a media and material culture theorist with a specialism in the history of phonography. She is the author of Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove, and the co-editor (with Eva Moreda Rodríguez) of Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890-1945.