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Wired for sound : engineering and technologies in sonic cultures / edited by Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Music/culture.
- Music/culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World music--History and criticism.
- World music.
- Sound--Recording and reproducing.
- Sound.
- Ethnomusicology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Ethnographically-grounded studies of technology in global music.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Wired Sound and Sonic Cultures; CHAPTER TWO: Reaching ""Overseas"": South African Sound Engineers, Technology, and Tradition; CHAPTER THREE: ""The Disc Is Not the Avenue"": Schismogenetic Mimesis in Samba Recording; CHAPTER FOUR: Nigel Pegrum, ""Didjeridu-Friendly Sections,"" and What Constitutes an ""Indigenous"" CD: An Australian Case Study of Producing ""World Music"" Recordings; CHAPTER FIVE: Music Mediated as Live in Austin: Sound, Technology, and Recording Practice
- CHAPTER SIX: Media as Social Action: Native American Musicians in the Recording StudioCHAPTER SEVEN: Engineering Techno-Hybrid Grooves in Two Indonesian Sound Studios; CHAPTER EIGHT: Short-Circuiting Perceptual Systems: Timbre in Ambient and Techno Music; CHAPTER NINE: ""Heaviness"" in the Perception of Heavy Metal Guitar Timbres: The Match of Perceptual and Acoustic Features over Time; CHAPTER TEN: Mixed Messages: Unsettled Cosmopolitanisms in Nepali Pop; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Soundscape of the Radio: Engineering Modern Songs and Superculture in Nepal
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Music and the Rise of Radio in Twenties America: Technological Imperialism, Socialization, and the Transformation of IntimacyCHAPTER THIRTEEN: Afterword; List of Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12830-6
- 9786613128300
- 0-8195-7062-1
- OCLC:
- 767498567
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