| Description |
1 online resource (165 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Examples -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Queue the Roll: Taylorized Labor Practices and Music of the Machine Age -- Introduction -- Prelude: Building the Machine -- Part 1: The Machine On Screen -- Part 2: The Mechanical Novelty -- Part 3: The Mechanical Ballet -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Unveiling the Editor's Hand: A Sonic Comparison of Rachmaninoff's C# Minor Prelude On Roll and Record -- Introduction |
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Prelude: The Player Piano Mechanism, the Pianolist, and the Rolls -- Editing Records and Rolls -- Editing Records -- Editing Rolls -- Modernizing Musical Labor -- Rachmaninoff -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Phantom Fingers at Work: Selling Mechanized Musical Labor in a Changing Musical Marketplace -- Introduction -- Perfect Labor -- Gendered Labor -- Educational Labor -- Stored and Reproduced Labor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Absolute Music and the Player Piano -- Introduction -- "Music for Music's Sake" -- Keeping Score |
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The Player Piano and the Cutting Edge -- The Player Piano's Peak -- Outmoded Mechanics: The Player Piano After Its Peak -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 The Machine Age in Ruins -- Introduction -- Out of the Ashes: Ballet Mécanique and Study No. 2 -- The Ghost in the Machine -- Haunting the Screen -- Reviving the Machine -- Decay: A Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Music -- Labor productivity -- History
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Player piano -- History
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Player piano
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000553147 |
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1000553140 |
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