Mark Duffett > Quotes

“As fandom scholars who are also music lovers, we have focused on the noon heat of passion, not the ways in which fandom can wax and wane. Even the precise reasons why any particular individual's fandom might end have rarely been examined and are poorly understood. Fandom always just seems there. Our relative blindness to its beginnings, endings and history is endemic to the field.”
― Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music

“Epic, adult and widescreen in its ambitions, the beefed-up Comeback version of 'Let Yourself Go' sounded almost violent in its execution, with Elvis's raw and desperate vocals every match for the gargantuan, aggressive horns and percussion that dominated the mix. A big, sweaty, dusty monster of a take towered over the Culver City version, and perfectly captured the tumultuous social and political strife of its era in dissonant musical form. This new version of 'Let Yourself Go' was unfailingly magnificent in its vision.”
― Mark Duffett, Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs

“The 'knowing field'... denotes a place that is both inside each of us, and something notionally shared by everyone else in the fan base.”
― Mark Duffett, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture