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Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures

Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures

Greene, Paul D.
Porcello, Thomas

Paperback

Series: Music / Culture

Music Recording & ReproductionWorld Music

ISBN10: 0819565172
ISBN13: 9780819565174
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Dec 20 2004
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Ethnographically-grounded studies of technology in global music.

Winner of the Society for Ethnmusicology's Klaus Wachsmann Award (2006)

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, heavy metal, and gamelan in Jakarta; urban Nepali pop which juxtaposes heavy metal, Tibetan Buddhist ritual chant, rap, and Himalayan folksongs; collaborations between Australian aboriginals and sound engineers; the production of heaviness in heavy metal music; and the production of the Austin sound. This anthology is must reading for anyone interested in the global character of contemporary music technology.

CONTRIBUTORS: Harris M. Berger, Beverley Diamond, Cornelia Fales, Ingemar Grandin, Louise Meintjes, Frederick J. Moehn, Karl Neunfeldt, Timothy D. Taylor, Jeremy Wallach.

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