Music and technology : a very short introduction / Mark Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Mark, 1970- author.

Series:

Oxford Academic.

Very short introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and technology.

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Sound recordings--Social aspects.

Sound recordings.

Musical instruments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations (colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

©2022

Summary:

This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge our traditional understanding of music and technology. In its most common use, "music technology" tends to evoke images of twentieth- and twenty-first-century electronic devices. This volume treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music-new or old, electronic or not-as technologies. In this view, technology in music encompasses instruments, whether acoustic, electric, or electronic; notation and printing; sound recording and playback; broadcasting; digital production software and streaming platforms, and much more. Technology has been integral to every aspect of musical activity as long as humans have made music. If we want to understand how music is made and experienced, if we want to know how music travels and how it gains meaning, we must investigate its relationship-ancient and inextricable-with technology.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Music as technology

2 Bodies and senses

3 Time

4 Space

5 Community

6 Noise

7 Five theses about music and technology

References

Further reading

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on June 20, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-762198-8

Publisher Number:

10.1093/actrade/9780199946983.001.0001 DOI