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.

• Introduction: From material culture to the materials of culture, Chapter 1. Sheen: Early stories and circulation of shellac, Chapter 2. Crackle: Assembling the record, Chapter 3. Mirrors: Phono-fetishism and intersensory visions, Chapter 4. Detonations: Shellac at war, Chapter 5. Shards: Waste, obsolescence, and contemporary remediations, Conclusion: Sonic sculptures, Index.