Vibe Merchants The Sound Creators Of Jamaican Popular Music

Author : Ray Hitchins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317002376

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Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music by Ray Hitchins Pdf

Vibe Merchants offers an insider’s perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the actual details of music-making practice, rationalized in the context of the economic and creative forces that locally drive music production. By focusing on the work of audio engineers and musicians, recording studios and recording models, Ray Hitchins highlights a music creation methodology that has been acknowledged as being different to that of Europe and North America. The book leads to a broadening of our understanding of how Jamaican Popular Music emerged, developed and functions, thus providing an engaging example of the important relationship between music, technology and culture that will appeal to a wide range of scholars.

Author : Ray Hitchins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317002383

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Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music by Ray Hitchins Pdf

Vibe Merchants offers an insider’s perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the actual details of music-making practice, rationalized in the context of the economic and creative forces that locally drive music production. By focusing on the work of audio engineers and musicians, recording studios and recording models, Ray Hitchins highlights a music creation methodology that has been acknowledged as being different to that of Europe and North America. The book leads to a broadening of our understanding of how Jamaican Popular Music emerged, developed and functions, thus providing an engaging example of the important relationship between music, technology and culture that will appeal to a wide range of scholars.

Author : 'H' Patten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000546422

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Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance by 'H' Patten Pdf

This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression. This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It does so by juxtaposing reggae/dancehall against Jamaican African/neo-African spiritual practices such as Jonkonnu masquerade, Revivalism and Kumina, alongside Christianity and post-modern holistic spiritual approaches. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, popular culture, music, theology, cultural studies, Jamaican/Caribbean culture, and dance specialists.

Author : Gary Bromham,Austin Moore
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000878950

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Distortion in Music Production by Gary Bromham,Austin Moore Pdf

Distortion in Music Production offers a range of valuable perspectives on how engineers and producers use distortion and colouration as production tools. Readers are provided with detailed and informed considerations on the use of non-linear signal processing, by authors working in a wide array of academic, creative, and professional contexts. Including comprehensive coverage of the process, as well as historical perspectives and future innovations, this book features interviews and contributions from academics and industry practitioners. Distortion in Music Production also explores ways in which music producers can implement the process in their work and how the effect can be used and abused through examination from technical, practical, and musicological perspectives. This text is one of the first to offer an extensive investigation of distortion in music production and constitutes essential reading for students and practitioners working in music production.

Author : Louis Chude-Sokei
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819575784

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The Sound of Culture by Louis Chude-Sokei Pdf

The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence. All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks and machines. As Chude-Sokei shows, science fiction itself has roots in racial anxieties and he traces those anxieties across two centuries and a range of writers and thinkers—from Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, and Donna Haraway, to Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter, and Samuel R. Delany.

Author : Guthrie P. Ramsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520243330

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Race Music by Guthrie P. Ramsey Pdf

Covering the vast and various terrain of African American music, this text begins with an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago. It goes on to explore the global influence and social relevance of African American music.

Author : Eric Enno Tamm
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0306806495

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Brian Eno by Eric Enno Tamm Pdf

Musician, composer, producer: Brian Eno is unique in contemporary music. Best known in recent years for producing U2's sensational albums, Eno began his career as a synthesizer player for Roxy Music. He has since released many solo albums, both rock and ambient, written music for film and television soundtracks, and collaborated with David Bowie, David Byrne, Robert Fripp, and classical and experimental composers. His pioneering ambient sound has been enormously influential, and without him today's rock would have a decidedly different sound. Drawing on Eno's own words to examine his influences and ideas, this book—featuring a new afterword and an updated discography and bibliography—will long remain provocative and definitive.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004247222

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Contemporary Musicians by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. Cooper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982605

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Sound Clash by C. Cooper Pdf

Megawattage sound systems have blasted the electronically-enhanced riddims and tongue-twisting lyrics of Jamaica's dancehall DJs across the globe. This high-energy raggamuffin music is often dismissed by old-school roots reggae fans as a raucous degeneration of classic Jamaican popular music. In this provocative study of dancehall culture, Cooper offers a sympathetic account of the philosophy of a wide range of dancehall DJs: Shabba Ranks, Lady Saw, Ninjaman, Capleton, Buju Banton, Anthony B and Apache Indian. Cooper also demonstrates the ways in which the language of dancehall culture, often devalued as mere 'noise,' articulates a complex understanding of the border clashes which characterize Jamaican society, and analyzes the sound clashes that erupt in the movement of Jamaican dancehall culture across national borders.

Author : Roy Shuker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136744730

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Understanding Popular Music Culture by Roy Shuker Pdf

Written specifically for students, this introductory textbook explores the history and meaning of rock and popular music. Roy Shuker's study provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music and examines the difficulties and debates which surround the analysis of popular culture and popular music. This heavily revised and updated third edition includes: new case studies on the iPod, downloading, and copyright the impact of technologies, including on-line delivery and the debates over MP3 and Napster new chapters on music genres, cover songs and the album canon as well as music retail, radio and the charts case studies and lyrics of artists such as Robert Johnson, The Who, Fat Boy Slim and The Spice Girls a comprehensive discography, suggestions for further reading, listening and viewing and a directory of useful websites. With chapter related guides to further reading, listening and viewing, a glossary, and a timeline, this textbook is the ideal introduction for students.

Author : Eric Abbey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789385393

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Distillation of Sound by Eric Abbey Pdf

How dub reggae expanded and shifted Jamaican culture. Jamaican music has always been about creating with what is at hand. Taking what is around you and making it into something great is the key to dub and Jamaican culture. Dub music in Jamaica started in the early 1970s and by the end of the decade had influenced an entire population. The music began to use the rhythm track of a song as a song itself and spread quickly throughout the sound systems of the island. This book reflects on the importance of dub music and its influence on the music world with the rise and spread of dub in New York, England, and Japan. Eric Abbey discusses the separation between dub as a product and dub as an act of the engineer. Distillation of Sound focuses on the original music of Jamaica and how dub reggae expanded and shifted Jamaican culture. It will further the discussion on dub music, its importance to Jamaican culture, and its creative influence on the music world.

Author : Max Mojapelo
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781920299286

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Beyond Memory by Max Mojapelo Pdf

South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical roots is very real. Of all the recordings made here since the 1930s, thousands have been lost for ever, for the powers-that-be never deemed them worthy of preservation. And if one peruses the books that exist on South African popular music, one still fi nds that their authors have on occasion jumped to conclusions that were not as foregone as they had assumed. Yet the fault lies not with them, rather in the fact that there has been precious little documentation in South Africa of who played what, or who recorded what, with whom, and when. This is true of all music-making in this country, though it is most striking in the musics of the black communities. Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music is an invaluable publication because it offers a first-hand account of the South African music scene of the past decades from the pen of a man, Max Thamagana Mojapelo, who was situated in the very thick of things, thanks to his job as a deejay at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This book - astonishing for the breadth of its coverage - is based on his diaries, on interviews he conducted and on numerous other sources, and we find in it not only the well-known names of recent South African music but a countless host of others whose contribution must be recorded if we and future generations are to gain an accurate picture of South African music history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Author : Virva Basegmez
Publisher : Almqvist & Wiksell International
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114761898

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Irish Scene and Sound by Virva Basegmez Pdf

Author : Julian Henriques
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441163462

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Sonic Bodies by Julian Henriques Pdf

The reggae sound system has exerted a major influence on music and popular culture. Out on the streets of inner city Kingston, Jamaica, every night, sound systems stage dancehall sessions for the crowd to share the immediate, intensive and immersive visceral pleasures of sonic dominance. Sonic Bodies concentrates on the skilled performance of the crewmembers responsible for this signature sound of Jamaican music: the audio engineers designing, building and fine-tuning the hugely powerful "sets" of equipment; the selectors choosing the music tracks to play; and MCs(DJs) on the mic hyping up the crowd. Julian Henriques proposes that these dancehall "vibes" are taken literally as the periodic motion of vibrations. He offers an analysis of how a sound system operates - at auditory, corporeal and sociocultural frequencies. Sonic Bodies formulates a fascinating critique of visual dominance and the dualities inherent in ideas of image, text or discourse. This innovative book questions the assumptions that reason resides only in a disembodied mind, that communication is an exchange of information, and that meaning is only ever representation.

Author : Sanjay Sharma,John Hutnyk,Ashwani Sharma
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000057573689

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Dis-Orienting Rhythms by Sanjay Sharma,John Hutnyk,Ashwani Sharma Pdf

Aims to produce a new understanding of the world significance of South Asian culture in multi-racist societies. It focuses on the role that contemporary South Asian dance music has played in the formation of a new urban cultural politics.