| Series |
Music/culture
Music/culture. ^A390481
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| 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 D. 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 L. Sturman -- The nature/technology binary opposition dismantled in the music of Madonna and Björk / Charity Marsh and Melissa West -- Before the deluge: the technoculture of song-sheet publishing viewed from late-nineteenth-century Galveston / Leslie G. 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 G. 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 architectonics 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. |
| Abstract |
Moving from web to field, from Victorian parlor to 21st-century mall, the 15 essays gathered here yield new insights regarding the intersection of local culture, musical creativity and technological possibilities. Inspired by the concept of "technoculture," the authors locate technology squarely in the middle of expressive culture: they are concerned with how technology culturally informs and infuses aspects of everyday life and musical experience, and they argue that this merger does not necessarily result in a "cultural grayout," but instead often produces exciting new possibilities. In this collection, we find evidence of musical practices and ways of knowing music that are informed or even significantly transformed by new technologies, yet remain profoundly local in style and meaning. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2003004628 |
| ISBN | 081956513X (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0819565148 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
