The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture (Cambridge Companions to Music)

Cambridge University Press, 9/19/2019
EAN 9781107161788, ISBN10: 1107161789

Hardcover, 346 pages, 25.1 x 18.2 x 2 cm
Language: English

The impact of digital technologies on music has been overwhelming: since the commercialisation of these technologies in the early 1980s, both the practice of music and thinking about it have changed almost beyond all recognition. From the rise of digital music making to digital dissemination, these changes have attracted considerable academic attention across disciplines,within, but also beyond, established areas of academic musical research. Through chapters by scholars at the forefront of research and shorter 'personal takes' from knowledgeable practitioners in the field, this Companion brings the relationship between digital technology and musical culture alive by considering both theory and practice. It provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the place of music within digital culture as a whole, with recurring themes and topics that include music and the Internet, social networking and participatory culture, music recommendation systems, virtuality, posthumanism, surveillance, copyright, and new business models for music production.

Introduction Nicholas Cook, Monique M. Ingalls and David Trippett
1. Digital technology and cultural practice Nicholas Cook
Personal take 1
whatever happened to tape trading? Lee Marshall
2. Towards a digital history of music
new technologies, business practices, and intellectual property regimes Martin Scherzinger
Personal take 2
on serving as an expert witness in the 'blurred lines' case Ingrid Monson
3. Shaping the stream
techniques and troubles of algorithmic recommendation K. E. Goldschmitt and Nick Seaver
Personal take 3
being a curator Ben Sinclair
Personal take 4
can machines have taste? Stéphan-Eloïse Gras
4. Technologies of the musical selfie Sumanth S. Gopinath and Jason Stanyek
Personal take 5
vaporwave is dead, long live vaporwave! Adam Harper
5. Witnessing race in the new digital cinema Peter McMurray
Personal take 6
giving history a voice Mariana Lopez
6. Musical media in online devotion Monique M. Ingalls
Personal take 7
technicians of ecstasy Graham St John
Personal take 8
live coded mashup with the humming wires Alan Blackwell and Sam Aaron
Personal take 9
algorave
dancing to algorithms Alex McLean
7. Rethinking liveness in a digital age Paul Sanden
Personal take 10
augmenting musical performance Andrew McPherson
Personal take 11
digital demons, real and imagined Steve Savage
Personal take 12
composing with sounds as images Julio d'Escriván
Personal take 13
compositional approaches to film, TV and video games Stephen Baysted
8. Virtual words from recording to video games Isabella van Elferen
9. Posthumanism and the generation of empathy David Trippett
Personal take 14
in the wake of the virtual Frances Dyson
10. Digital inequalities and global sounds Shzr Ee Tan
11. The political economy of streaming Martin Scherzinger.