Mediatization in popular music recorded artifacts : performance on record and on screen / Alessandro Bratus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bratus, Alessandro, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Performances.

Popular music.

Popular music--Production and direction.

Sound recordings--Social aspects.

Sound recordings.

Performances.

Physical Description:

xiii, 265 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

"In Mediatization in Popular Music Recorded Artifacts, the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence is investigated through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Alessandro Bratus explores technological mediation as a process of authentication that involves a chain of interconnected instances that have their roots in the cultural context in which the media products are designed to be marketed, and that also shape their recording technique and post-production. This book analyzes posthumous records, a peculiar case of the organization of songs realized in absentia of their original performers that puts forward the possibility of an "otherworldly" collaboration between the living and the dead. Bratus also argues that the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers and audiences reverberates in the audiovisual construction of the concert film, in which the spectator is put in the position of a witness rather than a passive consumer"-- Publisher's blurb on back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Theoretically live : performance and mediation between experience, intermediality, and authenticity

Live once, and witness forever : the analytical framework

The many lives of Jimi : recordings and utopian spaces in Hendrix's posthumous albums

So empty without me? : heritage, realness and memory in Tupac Shakur's posthumous records

Identity as timbre : Johnny Cash's expansive identity in the American recordings and beyond

A conversation with no speakers : live without audience

Live EDM : audiovisual performativity for bodies and machines

Coda: (Living?) in the material world : the in-betweenness of Michael Jackson's this is it.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781498556323

1498556329

OCLC:

1104462100