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Bytes and Backbeats

Steve Savage
Bytes and Backbeats Book PDF

Author : Steve Savage
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472901180

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From Attali's "cold social silence" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music practice, and critical analysis to challenge many of these traditional attitudes about the creation and reception of music. Savage adopts the notion of "repurposing" as central to understanding how every aspect of musical activity, from creation to reception, has been transformed, arguing that the tension within production between a naturalizing "art" and a self-conscious "artifice" reflects and feeds into our evolving notions of creativity, authenticity, and community. At the core of the book are three original audio projects, drawing from rock & roll, jazz, and traditional African music, through which Savage is able to target areas of contemporary practice that are particularly significant in the cultural evolution of the musical experience. Each audio project includes a studio study providing context for the social and cultural analysis that follows. This work stems from Savage's experience as a professional recording engineer and record producer.

The Architecture and Geography of Sound Studios

Even Smith Wergeland
The Architecture and Geography of Sound Studios Book PDF

Author : Even Smith Wergeland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781040048214

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This is a book about sound studios, focusing on their architectural and geographical aspects. It explores how music is materialized under specific spatial and technological conditions and the myths associated with this process. Through ten in-depth studies, it examines the design, evolution and current function of sound studios amidst economic and technological shifts in the music industry. Traditional studios are in flux between the past and future. The industry, while steeped in romanticism and nostalgia, also embraces forward-driven pragmatism and an extensive reuse culture, encompassing heritage audio, building materials and existing buildings. A surprisingly diverse architectural heritage, the most significant feature is the host building, the framework around the studio capsule. Many traditional studios adapt to digitalization with hybrid solutions, reflecting a shift toward smaller, more versatile spaces. In a time when recordings in theory can happen anywhere, destination studios must excel to attract clients, balancing historical legacies with diversification. Although they may be easy to deconstruct, many of the myths endure, sustaining ideas of landmark recordings, unique locations and distinct remnants of sonic heritage. Courtesy of their capacity to keep the past alive in the present, traditional sound studios are best described as museums that work. This book aims to reach scholars and students with an interest in history, theory and preservation, as well as practicing architects and architectural students who wish to find out more about the relationship between sound and space, acoustic design and retrofitting of historical buildings into specialized functions. It also aims to reach practicing musicians, producers, music students and music scholars.

Understanding and Crafting the Mix

William Moylan
Understanding and Crafting the Mix Book PDF

Author : William Moylan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781135017187

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Understanding and Crafting the Mix by William Moylan Pdf

Understanding and Crafting the Mix, 3rd edition provides the framework to identify, evaluate, and shape your recordings with clear and systematic methods. Featuring numerous exercises, this third edition allows you to develop critical listening and analytical skills to gain greater control over the quality of your recordings. Sample production sequences and descriptions of the recording engineer’s role as composer, conductor, and performer provide you with a clear view of the entire recording process. Dr. William Moylan takes an inside look into a range of iconic popular music, thus offering insights into making meaningful sound judgments during recording. His unique focus on the aesthetic of recording and mixing will allow you to immediately and artfully apply his expertise while at the mixing desk. A companion website features recorded tracks to use in exercises, reference materials, additional examples of mixes and sound qualities, and mixed tracks.

The Pop Palimpsest

Lori Burns,Serge Lacasse
The Pop Palimpsest Book PDF

Author : Lori Burns,Serge Lacasse
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472130672

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A fascinating interdisciplinary collection of essays on intertextual relationships in popular music

Innovation in Music

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer,Jay Hodgson,Justin Paterson,Rob Toulson
Innovation in Music Book PDF

Author : Russ Hepworth-Sawyer,Jay Hodgson,Justin Paterson,Rob Toulson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351016698

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Innovation in Music by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer,Jay Hodgson,Justin Paterson,Rob Toulson Pdf

Innovation in Music: Performance, Production, Technology and Business is an exciting collection comprising of cutting-edge articles on a range of topics, presented under the main themes of artistry, technology, production and industry. Each chapter is written by a leader in the field and contains insights and discoveries not yet shared. Innovation in Music covers new developments in standard practice of sound design, engineering and acoustics. It also reaches into areas of innovation, both in technology and business practice, even into cross-discipline areas. This book is the perfect companion for professionals and researchers alike with an interest in the Music industry. Chapter 31 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138498211_oachapter31.pdf

Good Vibrations

Philip Lambert
Good Vibrations Book PDF

Author : Philip Lambert
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472119950

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An international, interdisciplinary exploration of the band that helped define 1960s America

Powerful Voices

Joshua S Duchan
Powerful Voices Book PDF

Author : Joshua S Duchan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472118250

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Powerful Voices by Joshua S Duchan Pdf

The first scholarly account of the music and culture of collegiate a cappella

Rhymin' and Stealin'

Justin A Williams
Rhymin and Stealin Book PDF

Author : Justin A Williams
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472118922

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Rhymin' and Stealin' by Justin A Williams Pdf

The first book-length study of one of the most essential elements of hip-hop: musical borrowing

The Ringtone Dialectic

Sumanth Gopinath
The Ringtone Dialectic Book PDF

Author : Sumanth Gopinath
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780262019156

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The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics. A decade ago, the customizable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalized ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry and almost as quickly faded away. In The Ringtone Dialectic, Sumanth Gopinath charts the rise and fall of the ringtone economy and assesses its effect on cultural production. Gopinath describes the technical and economic structure of the ringtone industry, considering the transformation of ringtones from monophonic, single-line synthesizer files to polyphonic MIDI files to digital sound files and the concomitant change in the nature of capital and rent accumulation within the industry. He discusses sociocultural practices that seemed to wane as a result of these shifts, including ringtone labor, certain forms of musical notation and representation, and the creation of musical and artistic works quoting ringtones. Gopinath examines “declines,” “reversals,” and “revivals” of cultural forms associated with the ringtone and its changes, including the Crazy Frog fad, the use of ringtones in political movements (as in the Philippine “Gloriagate” scandal), the ringtone's narrative function in film and television (including its striking use in the films of the Chinese director Jia Zhangke), and the ringtone's relation to pop music (including possible race and class aspects of ringtone consumption). Finally, Gopinath considers the attempt to rebrand ringtones as “mobile music” and the emergence of cloud computing.

Krautrock

Ulrich Adelt
Krautrock Book PDF

Author : Ulrich Adelt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472053193

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Krautrock by Ulrich Adelt Pdf

The first in-depth study of one of the most influential movements of contemporary popular music

Hearing Harmony

Christopher Doll
Hearing Harmony Book PDF

Author : Christopher Doll
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472053520

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An original, listener-based approach to harmony for popular music from the rock era of the 1950s to the present

The Beatles through a Glass Onion

Mark Osteen
The Beatles through a Glass Onion Book PDF

Author : Mark Osteen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472074082

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The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal recording at length, bringing together contributions by some of the most eminent scholars of rock music writing today. It marks a reconsideration of this iconic but under-appreciated recording and reaffirms the White Album’s significance in the Beatles’ career and in rock history. This volume treats the White Album as a whole, with essays scrutinizing it from a wide range of perspectives. These essays place the album within the social and political context of a turbulent historical moment; locate it within the Beatles’ lives and careers, taking into consideration the complex personal forces at play during the recording sessions; investigate the musical as well as pharmaceutical influences on the record; reveal how it reflects new developments in the Beatles’ songwriting and arranging; revisit the question of its alleged disunity; and finally, track its legacy and the breadth of its influence on later rock, pop, and hip-hop artists. The Beatles through a Glass Onion features the scholarship of Adam Bradley, Vincent Benitez, Lori Burns, John Covach, Walter Everett, Michael Frontani, Steve Hamelman, Ian Inglis, John Kimsey, Mark Osteen, Russell Reising, Stephen Valdez, Anthony D. Villa, Kenneth Womack, and Alyssa Woods. John Covach’s Afterword summarizes the White Album’s lasting impact and value. The Beatles through a Glass Onion represents a landmark work of rock music scholarship. It will prove to be an essential and enduring contribution to the field.

I Hear a Symphony

Andrew Flory
I Hear a Symphony Book PDF

Author : Andrew Flory
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472036868

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I Hear a Symphony by Andrew Flory Pdf

Investigates how the music of Motown Records functioned as the center of the company's creative and economic impact worldwide

I Don't Sound Like Nobody

Albin Zak
I Don t Sound Like Nobody Book PDF

Author : Albin Zak
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472035120

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I Don't Sound Like Nobody by Albin Zak Pdf

A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history

Soda Goes Pop

Joanna Love
Soda Goes Pop Book PDF

Author : Joanna Love
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472054022

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From its 1939 “Nickel, Nickel” jingle to pathbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson and Madonna to its pair of X Factor commercials in 2011 and 2012, Pepsi-Cola has played a leading role in drawing the American pop music industry into a synergetic relationship with advertising. This idea has been copied successfully by countless other brands over the years, and such commercial collaboration is commonplace today—but how did we get here? How and why have pop music aesthetics been co-opted to benefit corporate branding? What effect have Pepsi’s music marketing practices in particular had on other brands, the advertising industry, and popular music itself? Soda Goes Pop investigates these and other vital questions around the evolving relationships between popular music and corporate advertising. Joanna K. Love joins musical analysis, historical research, and cultural theory to trace parallel shifts in these industries over eight decades. In addition to scholarly and industry resources, she draws on first-hand accounts, pop culture magazines, trade press journals, and other archival materials. Pepsi’s longevity as an influential American brand, its legendary commercials, and its pioneering, relentless pursuit of alliances with American musical stars makes the brand a particularly instructive point of focus. Several of the company’s most famous ad campaigns are prime examples of the practice of redaction, whereby marketers select, censor, and restructure musical texts to fit commercial contexts in ways that revise their aesthetic meanings and serve corporate aims. Ultimately, Love demonstrates how Pepsi’s marketing has historically appropriated and altered images of pop icons and the meanings of hit songs, and how these commercials shaped relationships between the American music business, the advertising industry, and corporate brands. Soda Goes Pop is a rich resource for scholars and students of American studies, popular culture, advertising, broadcast media, and musicology. It is also an accessible and informative book for the general reader, as Love’s musical and theoretical analyses are clearly presented for non-specialist audiences and readers with varying degrees of musical knowledge.