For the Records: How African American Consumers and Music Retailers Created Commercial Public Space in the 1960s and 1970s South

Davis, Joshua Clark

doi:10.1353/scu.2011.0063

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“…The percent of record stores located in predominantly black areas has fallen, while the percent located in other areas has grown in the cities studied, between 1970 and 2010. These findings support the claims of Davis (), who argues that record stores were once more closely associated with black neighborhoods but are now more likely to be located within majority white areas.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Majority black areas were once home to a greater percentage of record stores, which confirms qualitative work by Davis () specifically, but also work about increased retail homogenization in predominantly black areas by Kwate and Loh () and Sutton (, ) more generally. Following Massey and Denton (), I expected the interaction between period and predominantly black areas to be significant and associated with higher probabilities of failure for both 1980 and 2000—two periods of national recession.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…The significant and strong effects of the interaction between race and the 1980–1990 time period confirms qualitative work on the loss of black record stores in North Carolina by Davis (). In other periods, the failure rate of record stores in black and other non‐white minority groups is not statistically distinguishable from those in majority white areas, which was an unexpected finding.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…These findings confirm qualitative work by Davis (), which argues that black neighborhoods once had a higher concentration of music retailers before the 1980s. But the findings also modify work by Massey and Denton (), who argue that the spatial concentration of poverty exacerbates the intensity of economic change.…”

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“…). Small business owners can also serve as civic leaders to local communities (Davis ). Retailers both reflect and shape the cultural life of neighborhoods, concentrating goods and experiences in urban space.…”

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More than Sound: Record Stores in Majority Black Neighborhoods in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit, 1970–2010

Calkins

2019

City & Community

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Music consumption imbues a city's neighborhoods with a character all their own, contributing to a vibrant and dynamic map of urban cultures. Brick‐and‐mortar music retailers remain an important site for this consumption, persisting despite challenges posed by digitization. But the landscape of contemporary cultural consumption has been shaped by urban inequality over time. Using a unique dataset of record store locations derived from city directories, and census tract data from the Longitudinal Tract Database (LTDB), this article presents maps and regression results that suggest that the current pattern of music retail has undergone radical shifts between 1970 and 2010 in the cities of Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit. Record stores were once more highly clustered in predominantly black areas than they are today. An analysis of record store failure further suggests that in the period between 1980 and 1990, record stores outside of majority white areas had significantly higher probabilities of failure than those within them. This study contributes to scholarship on cultural consumption and urban change by accounting for how segregation shapes the retail landscape.

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