Music and technoculture / edited by René T.A. Lysloff and Leslie C. Gay, Jr. ; afterword by Andrew Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lysloff, René T. A., editor.

Gay, Leslie C., editor.

Ross, Andrew, writer of supplementary textual content.

Series:

Music/culture.

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and technology.

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--21st century--History and criticism.

Music--Social aspects.

Ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the rich relationship between technology, music and culture.

Contents:

Introduction : Ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century / René T.A. Lysloff and Leslie C. Gay, Jr.

Musical life in Softcity : an Internet ethnography / René T.A. Lysloff

A riddle wrapped in a mystery : transnational music sampling and Enigma's "return to innocence" / Timothy Taylor

"Ethnic sounds" : the economy and discourse of world music sampling / Paul Théberge

Technology and the production of Islamic space : the call to prayer in Singapore / Tong Soon Lee

Plugged in at home : Vietnamese American technoculture in Orange County / Deborah Wong

Technology and identity in Colombian popular music : tecno-macondismo in Carlos Vives's approach to Vallenato / Janet Sturman

The nature/technology binary opposition dismantled in the music of Madonna and Björk / Melissa West and Charity Marsh

Before the deluge : the technoculture of song sheet publishing viewed from late nineteenth century Galveston / Leslie C. Gay, Jr.

Stretched from Manhattan's back alley to MOMA : a social history of magnetic tape and recording / Matthew Malsky

Tails out : social phenomenology and the ethnographic representation of technology in music-making / Thomas Porcello

"There's not a problem I can't fix, 'cause I can do it in the mix" : on the performative technology of 12-inch vinyl / Kai Fikentscher

Sounds like the Mall of America : programmed music and the achitectonics of commercial space / Jonathan Sterne

Consuming audio : an introduction to tweak theory / Marc Perlman

Fairly used : Negativland's U2 and the precarious practice of acoustic appropriation / David Sanjek

Afterword : back to basics with the Roland 303 / Andrew Ross.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780819574411

0819574414

OCLC:

874029534