Music and Technoculture (Music Culture)

Explores the rich relationship between technology, music and culture.

Moving from web to field, from Victorian parlor to 21st-century mall, the 15 essays gathered here yield new insights regarding the intersection of local culture, musical creativity and technological possibilities. Inspired by the concept of "technoculture," the authors locate technology squarely in the middle of expressive culture: they are concerned with how technology culturally informs and infuses aspects of everyday life and musical experience, and they argue that this merger does not necessarily result in a "cultural grayout," but instead often produces exciting new possibilities. In this collection, we find evidence of musical practices and ways of knowing music that are informed or even significantly transformed by new technologies, yet remain profoundly local in style and meaning.

CONTRIBUTORS: Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Kai Fikentscher, Tong Soon Lee, Ren T. A. Lysloff, Matthew Malsky, Charity Marsh, Marc Perlman, Thomas Porcello, Andrew Ross, David Sanjek, jonathan Sterne, Janet L. Sturman, Timothy D. Taylor, Paul Th berge, Melissa West, Deborah Wong.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819565148
• ISBN13: 9780819565143
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

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Concerning the melding point of musical creativity

Collaboratively compiled and definitively co-edited by Rene T. A. Lysloff (Assistant Professor of Music, University of California - Riverside) and Leslie C. Gay, Jr. (Associate Professor and Coordinator of Musicology, University of Tennessee - Knoxville), Music And Technoculture collects together fifteen original essays by a variety of learned authors concerning the melding point of musical creativity and the options that technology makes possible to budding musical artists. Transformation of musical creations as well as the staying power and influence of local style form the heart of the insightful and varied discourse in this scholarly anthology of modern changes in music study. Music And Technoculture is an impressive, informative, and highly recommended addition to academic and professional History of Music and Contemporary American Cultural Studies reference collections and reading lists.