The Death of Vinyl: This somewhat recent news clip gives an insightful look into how some record stores are filling a niche market in vinyl so that they can stay competitive in the age of the digital download.
High Fidelity: The first couple minutes of this clip from the 2000 film "High Fidelity" gives some valuable information on how popular culture interpreted the subculture involving vinyl records and youth.
Devendra Banhart and Colin Meloy on Vinyl: The Insound record label supports this website called save the album on which prominent popular "indie" artists are interviewed about their favorite records and why the like vinyl. These are the types of artists who are now making the effort to have their music released onto vinyl. Here are Devendra Banhart and Colin Meloy of the Decemberists.
Here is a newspaper article which discusses the upwards trend in vinyl sales and youth interest in the format by Ben Mock:
Ben Mook "Vinyl records enjoying a resurgence in popularity". Daily Record, The (Baltimore). Jan 20, 2006. FindArticles.com. 04 Oct. 2007. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4183/is_20060120/ai_n16025264
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You're doing a great job of finding a wide variety of sources for this project, including multimedia sources. Later in the term we'll watch some of the documentary _Scratch_, which might also be relevant for you. Here are some other references that you might want to have a look at:
Schloss, Joseph G. 2004. Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Straw, Will. 1997. "Sizing up Record Collections: Gender and Connoisseurship in Rock Music Culture." In Sexing the Groove : Popular Music and Gender, ed. Sheila Whiteley. London: Routledge.
(I'm pretty sure this author has written other stuff on this topic, so try searching for it.)
Cox, Christoph and Daniel Warner, eds. 2004. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. New York: Continuum. (I seem to remember that this has some material on DJ cultures, but since I'm in a coffee shop in Philadelphia right now I can't say for sure....)
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