Producer As Composer Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music

Name: Producer As Composer Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music
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ISBN: 9780262514057

ISBN-10: 0262514052

ISBN-13: 9780262514057

Edition: 2010

Authors: Virgil Moorefield

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



From Mirror to Beacon


Beginnings


The Brill Building Songwriters


Phil Spector's Wall of Sound


"Be My Baby"


Brian Wilson


"Good Vibrations"


Hits Off the Assembly Line: Motown


"I Heard It through the Grapevine"


George Martin and the Beatles


"Tomorrow Never Knows"


"A Day in the Life"


Frank Zappa


"Flower Punk"


The Situation at the End of the Sixties



The Studio as Musical Instrument


Sixteen Tracks and More


Dark Side of the Moon


Tony Visconti


Brian Eno


Music for Airports: "2/1"


My Life in the Bush of Ghosts


Bill Laswell


The Making of Swans' The Burning World


Trent Reznor


"Mr. Self Destruct" v. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"



The Producer Takes Center Stage


The Discothï¿½que and Musique Concrï¿½te


Disco: "The Producer's Genre"


"I Feel Love"


Michael Jackson's Work with Quincy Jones


"Billie Jean"


Kraftwerk and Conny Plank


Hip-Hop and the Rise of Sampling


Hip-Hop in the Late Eighties


"Bring the Noise"


The Hip-Hop Producer Today


Electronica


Remix


"Break on Through" (The Doors; BT Remix)


Re-editing Updated: Mash-Ups


The Contemporary Situation: Is the Producer Obsolete?


Glossary


Recordings Cited


Bibliography


Index