Special Issue: ‘Dream Factories: Prince, Sign o’ the Times, Box Sets and Cultural Artefacts’

Mike Alleyne; Kirsty Fairclough

doi:10.1386/iscc_00042_2

Dream Factories: Prince, Sign o’ the Times, Box Sets and Cultural Artefacts

ISSN: 1757-2681
E-ISSN: 1757-269X

f Special Issue: ‘Dream Factories: Prince, Sign o’ the Times, Box Sets and Cultural Artefacts’
Authors: Mike Alleyne¹ and Kirsty Fairclough²
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Affiliations: ¹ ISNI: 0000000121116385 Middle Tennessee State University ² ISNI: 0000000107905329 Manchester Metropolitan University
Source: Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, Volume 12, Issue Dream Factories: Prince, Sign o’ the Times, Box Sets and Cultural Artefacts, Sep 2022, p. 139 - 144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc_00042_2
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Sep 2022

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Abstract

This editorial examines historical and artistic contexts within which Prince’s Sign o’ the Times box set reissue might be viewed and heard, while also considering the overall posthumous output from the Estate. The discussion therefore explores the commercial and other functions of box sets in general and Prince’s reissued recordings in in particular, potential symbolic signification, and the critical polarization that often accompanies such releases. Moreover, the box metaphor is employed to address academic partitioning and intellectual conservatism in Prince historiography.

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Article Type: Editorial

Keyword(s): box set; critic; culture; posthumous; Prince; recording; reissue; Vault

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