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Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780801868856
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Hans-Joachim Braun
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Local release date: 14/11/2002
Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of science [PDX]

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Technology has always been inseparable from the development of music. But in the twentieth century a rapid acceleration took place: a new ""machine music"" came into existence, electronic musical instruments appeared, and composers sometimes seemed more like sound technicians than musicians. In this book Hans-Joachim Braun and his co-authors offer a wide-ranging and fascinating look at the relationship of technology and modern music. Topics range from the role of Yamaha in Japan's musical development to the social construction of the synthesizer; from the player piano as precursor of computer music to the musical role of airplanes and locomotives; from the growth of one independent recording studio (from ""Polka to Punk"") to the origins of the 45RPM record. Other chapters consider violin vibrato and the phonograph, Jimi Hendrix, and the aesthetic challenge of soundsampling. The book concludes with a look at the current situation, and perspectives for its future in electronic music.

Contributors: Barbara Barthelmes, Karin Bijsterveld, Hans-Joachim Braun, Martha Brech, Hugh Davies, Bernd Enders, Geoffrey Hindley, Jüergen Hocker, Mark Katz, Tatsuya Kobayashi, James P. Kraft, Alexander B. Magoun, Rebecca McSwain, Andre Millard, Helga de la Motte-Haber, Trevor Pinch, Susan Schmidt-Horning, and Frank Trocco.

Contents:Introduction
Keyboards, Crankshafts and Communication
Electronic Instruments
It all Began with a Broken Organ
The Social Contruction of the Early
My Soul is in the Machine
Music and the City
Monin On
A Servile Imitation
From Polka to Punk
The Orgins of the 45 rpm Record at RCA Victor
Tape Recording and Music Making
Musicians and the Sounf Revolution
Aesthetics out of Exigency
The Social Reconstruction of a Reverse Salient in Electrical Guitar Technology
Sound Sampling
New Technology
Musical Education and the New Media

""This much-needed collection of critical essays addresses sound art from many new and interesting perspectives... Braun did a nice job of bringing together these 17 very strong and personal voices, which in the end make for good, thought-provoking reading.""

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