Wired for Sound Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures

Name: Wired for Sound Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures
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ISBN: 9780819565174

ISBN-10: 0819565172

ISBN-13: 9780819565174

Edition: 2004

Authors: Paul D. Greene, Thomas Porcello

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Wired for Sound is the first anthology to address the role of sound engineering technologies in the shaping of contemporary global music. Wired sound is at the basis of digital audio editing, multi-track recording, and other studio practices that have powerfully impacted the world's music. Distinctions between musicians and engineers increasingly blur, making it possible for people around the globe to imagine new sounds and construct new musical aesthetics. This collection of 11 essays employs primarily ethnographical, but also historical and psychological, approaches to examine a range of new, technology-intensive musics and musical practices such as: fusions of Indian film-song rhythms,…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 12/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Wired Sound and Sonic Cultures




Reaching "Overseas": South African Sound Engineers, Technology, and Tradition




"The Disc Is Not the Avenue": Schismogenetic Mimesis in Samba Recording




Nigel Pegrum, "Didjeridu-Friendly Sections," and What Constitutes an "Indigenous" CD: An Australian Case Study of Producing "World Music" Recordings




Music Mediated as Live in Austin: Sound, Technology, and Recording Practice




Media as Social Action: Native American Musicians in the Recording Studio




Engineering Techno-Hybrid Grooves in Two Indonesian Sound Studios




Short-Circuiting Perceptual Systems: Timbre in Ambient and Techno Music




"Heaviness" in the Perception of Heavy Metal Guitar Timbres: The Match of Perceptual and Acoustic Features over Time




Mixed Messages: Unsettled Cosmopolitanisms in Nepali Pop




The Soundscape of the Radio: Engineering Modern Songs and Superculture in Nepal




Music and the Rise of Radio in Twenties America: Technological Imperialism, Socialization, and the Transformation of Intimacy




Afterword



List of Contributors


Index