Charles Fairchild

Sounds, Screens, Speakers (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction to Music and Media

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sounds, Screens, Speakers provides a broadly comprehensive survey of the emerging field of music and media. Music has been present at the advent of nearly every new media form since the turn of the 20th century. Whether we look at the start of sound recording, film, television or the Internet, music has been a crucial participant in the social changes brought about by these new tools for making and listening to music. This book examines such changes starting in the late 19th century to the present. From the introduction of the microphone all the way through to music in reality television, the purpose of each section is not simply to move chronologically towards the present, but to focus especially on the tangible social relationships created through specific forms of mediation. With readings at the end of most chapters, key questions to facilitate additional discovery and research, and direction to additional readings and resources on popular websites and news sources, this text serves as the ideal introduction to popular music and media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501336263
• Artikelnr.: 56245353

Autorenporträt

Charles Fairchild is Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the author of Musician in the Museum (Bloomsbury, 2021), Sounds, Screens, and Speakers (Bloomsbury, 2019), Danger Mouse's The Grey Album (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Music, Radio and the Public Sphere (2012). His work focuses on cultural mediation in the music industry, focusing especially on the period from 1975 to the present, examining how intermediaries within different kinds of institutions shape the ways people consume and make meaning from music.

Inhaltsangabe

Overview: All Media Are Social Media: Concepts, Materials, Methods Key
Reading: "From Music Publishing to MP3: Music and Industry in the 20th
Century" Reebee Garofalo Part 1: The Early Recording Industry, 1875 to
1940. Key Reading: A collection of gramophone and phonograph ads from the
early 20th century. 1. Mediated Music, Fidelity, and Social Anxiety Focus:
Selling the Phonograph 2. Sound Recordings and Radio in the 'Jazz Age'
Focus: The Devil's Music 3. 'Microphone Singing' and the Short Musical Film
Focus: Crooners and 'Real' Singers 4. The Global Gramophone Focus: The
Recorded Music of the 'Black Atlantic' Part 2: Bigger, Better, Louder,
Longer, 1930 to 1970. Key Reading: Introduction to Rock 'N' Film David
James 5. The Triumph of the Film Musical Focus: Two Films with Frank
Sinatra 6. The 'Youth' Movie and the 45 Focus: Marlon, Jimmy, and Elvis on
Film Key Reading: Chasing Sound: The Culture and Technology of Recording
Studios in Postwar America Susan Horning 7. FM Radio and the Long Playing
Record Focus: Freeform Radio 8. Magnetic Tape and the Recording Studio
Focus: The Producer: Tom Dowd of Atlantic Records Part 3: New Forms of
Media, New Kinds of Fame, 1960 to 2000 Key Reading: Music, Image, Labor:
Television's Prehistory Murray Forman 9. Music on Television in the 1960s
and 70s Focus: "Our World" and "Elvis" 10. MTV and the Evolution of the
Short Musical Film Focus: From Playing Music Videos to Branding Musical
Fame 11. The Popular Music Documentary Focus: "Don't Look Back" and the
'Great Art' of Bob Dylan 12. Rock Film at the End of the 20th Century
Focus: "Meeting People Is Easy" and the 'Great Art' of Radiohead Part Four:
Clouds, Crowds, and Idols, 1980 to 2015 Key Reading: The Heavenly Jukebox
Charles Mann 13. New Ways to Connect Focus: The Invention and Spread of the
MP3 14. The Catastrophe of Napster, the Opportunities of Digital Focus:
Napster v. The Music Industry 15. Music-Based Reality TV Focus: The Idol
Journey 16. Streaming, Clouds, and the Dematerialization of Music Focus:
Curating Music in the Playlist Economy Index