Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 10 g
Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 10 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-998522-7
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
tone, an emergent musical construct that straddles the borderline between the perceptual and the political. Essays engage with the entire history of popular music as recorded sound, from the 1930s to the present day, under four large categories. "Genre" asks how sonic signatures define musical identities and publics;
"Voice" considers the most naturalized musical instrument, the human voice, as racial and gendered signifier, as property or likeness, and as raw material for algorithmic perfection through software; "Instrument" tells stories of the way some iconic pop music machines-guitars, strings, synthesizers-got (or lost) their distinctive sounds; "Production" then puts it all together, asking structural questions about what happens in a recording studio, what is produced (sonic cartoons? rockist
authenticity? empty space?) and what it all might mean.