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Cassette Culture

Author : Peter Manuel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226504018

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In Cassette Culture, Peter Manuel tells how a new mass medium—the portable cassette player—caused a major upheaval in popular culture in the world's second-largest country. The advent of cassette technology in the 1980s transformed India's popular music industry from the virtual monopoly of a single multinational LP manufacturer to a free-for-all among hundreds of local cassette producers. The result was a revolution in the quantity, quality, and variety of Indian popular music and its patterns of dissemination and consumption. Manuel shows that the cassette revolution, however, has brought new contradictions and problems to Indian culture. While inexpensive cassettes revitalized local subcultures and community values throughout the subcontinent, they were also a vehicle for regional and political factionalism, new forms of commercial vulgarity, and, disturbingly, the most provocative sorts of hate-mongering and religious chauvinism. Cassette Culture is the first scholarly account of Indian popular music and the first case study of a technological revolution now occurring throughout the world. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in modern India, communications theory, world popular music, or contemporary global culture.

Cassette Cultures

Author : John Z. Komurki,Luca Bendandi
Publisher : Benteli Verlags
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Audiocassettes
ISBN : 3716518484

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The ultimatie guide to the ,,tapenaissance", covering every aspect of the movement.

Mix Tape

Author : Thurston Moore
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057553052

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Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture is the first book to focus on the unique confluence of cassette culture, featuring stories, essays and images from tapes compiled by and for friends, family and lovers over the last twenty years.

The Music Sound

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 6042 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.

Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

Author : Ted Swedenburg,Rebecca L. Stein
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822386872

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Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture by Ted Swedenburg,Rebecca L. Stein Pdf

This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The contributors consider how Palestinian and Israeli popular culture influences and is influenced by political, economic, social, and historical processes in the region. At the same time, they follow the circulation of Palestinian and Israeli cultural commodities and imaginations across borders and checkpoints and within the global marketplace. The volume is interdisciplinary, including the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists, ethnomusicologists, and Americanist and literary studies scholars. Contributors examine popular music of the Palestinian resistance, ethno-racial “passing” in Israeli cinema, Arab-Jewish rock, Euro-Israeli tourism to the Arab Middle East, Internet communities in the Palestinian diaspora, café culture in early-twentieth-century Jerusalem, and more. Together, they suggest new ways of conceptualizing Palestinian and Israeli political culture. Contributors. Livia Alexander, Carol Bardenstein, Elliott Colla, Amy Horowitz, Laleh Khalili, Mary Layoun, Mark LeVine, Joseph Massad, Melani McAlister, Ilan Pappé, Rebecca L. Stein, Ted Swedenburg, Salim Tamari

Love Is a Mix Tape

Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : Crown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400083039

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“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ended when he watched her die in his arms. Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of music to build a bridge between people is stronger than death. You’ll read these words, perhaps surprisingly, with joy in your heart and a song in your head—the one that comes to mind when you think of the love of your life. Praise for Love is a Mixtape “A memoir that manages, no small feat, to be funny and beautifully forlorn at the same time.”—The New York Times Book Review “Humorous, heartbreaking, and heroic.”—Entertainment Weekly “The finest lines ever written about rock ‘n’ roll . . . Like that song on the radio, every word of Rob’s book is true. Love is a mix tape.”—Rolling Stone “Many of us use pop culture as a mirror of our emotional lives, but Sheffield happily walks right through the looking glass.”—Los Angeles Times “Sheffield writes with such aching remembering, you feel like you are invading his privacy . . . and it’s the truth of those details that make this memoir so touching.”—Newsweek

Culture in the Contemporary PRC

Author : Michel Hockx,Julia Strauss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521681243

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Culture in the Contemporary PRC by Michel Hockx,Julia Strauss Pdf

The culture of the People's Republic of China offers a unique blend of the popular, the political and the avant-garde. In no other country in the world are cultural products subjected to such strict censorship and at the same time consumed by such large numbers of people. This volume presents essays by scholars at the cutting edge of Chinese cultural studies, dealing with subjects ranging from advertising to poetry, from rock music to revolutionary museums, providing an authoritative and multi-faceted analysis of some of the world's most complex cultural phenomena.

The Politics of Post-9/11 Music: Sound, Trauma, and the Music Industry in the Time of Terror

Author : Brian Flota
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317020264

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The Politics of Post-9/11 Music: Sound, Trauma, and the Music Industry in the Time of Terror by Brian Flota Pdf

Seeking to extend discussions of 9/11 music beyond the acts typically associated with the September 11th attacks”U2, Toby Keith, The Dixie Chicks, Bruce Springsteen”this collection interrogates the politics of a variety of post-9/11 music scenes. Contributors add an aural dimension to what has been a visual conceptualization of this important moment in US history by articulating the role that lesser-known contemporary musicians have played”or have refused to play”in constructing a politics of protest in direct response to the trauma inflicted that day. Encouraging new conceptualizations of what constitutes 'political music,' The Politics of Post-9/11 Music covers topics as diverse as the rise of Internet music distribution, Christian punk rock, rap music in the Obama era, and nostalgia for 1960s political activism.

Japanoise

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822353928

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Drawing on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States, David Novak traces the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise, an underground music genre combining distortion and electronic effects.

Sound Souvenirs

Author : Karin Bijsterveld,José van Dijck
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789089641328

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Sound Souvenirs by Karin Bijsterveld,José van Dijck Pdf

In recent decades, the importance of sound for remembering the past and for creating a sense of belonging has been increasingly acknowledged. We keep "sound souvenirs" such as cassette tapes and long play albums in our attics because we want to be able to recreate the music and everyday sounds we once cherished. Artists and ordinary listeners deploy the newest digital audio technologies to recycle past sounds into present tunes. Sound and memory are inextricably intertwined, not just through the commercially exploited nostalgia on oldies radio stations, but through the exchange of valued songs by means of pristine recordings and cultural practices such as collecting, archiving and listing. This book explores several types of cultural practices involving the remembrance and restoration of past sounds. At the same time, it theorizes the cultural meaning of collecting, recycling, reciting, and remembering sound and music.

DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes

Author : Andy Bennett,Paula Guerra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351850322

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This volume examines the global influence and impact of DIY cultural practice as this informs the production, performance and consumption of underground music in different parts of the world. The book brings together a series of original studies of DIY musical activities in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania. The chapters combine insights from established academic writers with the work of younger scholars, some of whom are directly engaged in contemporary underground music scenes. The book begins by revisiting and re-evaluating key themes and issues that have been used in studying the cultural meaning of alternative and underground music scenes, notably aspects of space, place and identity and the political economy of DIY cultural practice. The book then explores how the DIY cultural practices that characterize alternative and underground music scenes have been impacted and influenced by technological change, notably the emergence of digital media. Finally, in acknowledging the over 40-year history of DIY cultural practice in punk and post-punk contexts, the book considers how DIY cultures have become embedded in cultural memory and the emotional geographies of place. Through combining high-quality data and fresh conceptual insights in the context of an international body of work spanning the disciplines of popular-music studies, cultural and media studies, and sociology the book offers a series of innovative new directions in the study of DIY cultures and underground/alternative music scenes. This volume will be of particular interest to undergraduate students in the above-mentioned fields of study, as well as an invaluable resource for established academics and researchers working in these and related fields.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture

Author : Andy Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501333705

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture provides a comprehensive and fully up-to-date overview of key themes and debates relating to the academic study of popular music and youth culture. While this is a highly popular and rapidly expanding field of research, there currently exists no single-source reference book for those interested in this topic. The handbook is comprised of 32 original chapters written by leading authors in the field of popular music and youth culture and covers a range of topics including: theory; method; historical perspectives; genre; audience; media; globalization; ageing and generation.

Mixtape Nostalgia

Author : Jehnie I. Burns
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781793616807

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Mixtape Nostalgia analyzes the role of the mixtape as a site of collective memory tied to youth culture, community identity, and sharing music. The author looks at the history of the mixtape from the early 1980s and the rise of the cassette as a fundamental aspect of the music industry.

21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture

Author : R. Purcell,R. Randall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781137497604

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21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture by R. Purcell,R. Randall Pdf

This collection presents a contemporary evaluation of the changing structures of music delivery and enjoyment. Exploring the confluence of music consumption, burgeoning technology, and contemporary culture; this volume focuses on issues of musical communities and the politics of media.

Narratives from Beyond the UK Reggae Bassline

Author : William 'Lez' Henry,Matthew Worley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030551612

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Narratives from Beyond the UK Reggae Bassline by William 'Lez' Henry,Matthew Worley Pdf

This book explores the history of reggae in modern Britain from the time it emerged as a cultural force in the 1970s. As basslines from Jamaica reverberated across the Atlantic, so they were received and transmitted by the UK’s Afro-Caribbean community. From roots to lovers’ rock, from deejays harnessing the dancehall crowd to dub poets reporting back from the socio-economic front line, British reggae soundtracked the inner-city experience of black youth. In time, reggae’s influence permeated the wider culture, informing the sounds and the language of popular music whilst also retaining a connection to the street-level sound systems, clubs and centres that provided space to create, protest and innovate. This book is therefore a testament to struggle and ingenuity, a collection of essays tracing reggae’s importance to both the culture and the politics of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Britain.