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The Vinyl Age

Clinton Walker, Sociology: Place, Time and Division (OUP), 2006

I GREW UP in a house without music. In suburban Melbourne in the 1960s, we had a spindly-legged (black and white) TV whose blonde-wood finish matched the polished floorboards and the spindly-legged lounge suite. The décor was modernist but we had no radio or a record player.

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