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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不仅仅是声音：芝加哥、密尔沃基和底特律的多数黑人社区的唱片店，1970-2010

音乐消费使一个城市的街区充满了自己的特色，为城市文化的充满活力和活力的地图做出了贡献。尽管数字化带来了挑战，实体音乐零售商仍然是这种消费的重要场所。但随着时间的推移，城市不平等已经塑造了当代文化消费的格局。使用源自城市目录的独特唱片店位置数据集和来自纵向区域数据库 (LTDB) 的人口普查数据，本文展示了地图和回归结果，表明当前的音乐零售模式在 1970 年至 2010 年之间发生了根本性转变在密尔沃基、芝加哥和底特律等城市。唱片店在以黑人为主的地区曾经比现在更加密集。对唱片店故障的分析进一步表明，在 1980 年至 1990 年期间，多数白人区域之外的唱片店的故障概率明显高于其中的唱片店。本研究通过解释隔离如何塑造零售景观，为文化消费和城市变迁的学术贡献。