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Title Wired for sound : engineering and technologies in sonic cultures / edited by Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello
Published Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages) : illustrations
Series Music/culture
Music/culture.
Contents Introduction : Wired sound and sonic cultures / Paul D. Greene -- Reaching "overseas" : South African sound engineers, technology, and tradition / Louise Meintjes -- " The disc is not the avenue" : schismogenetic mimesis in samba recording / Frederick J. Moehn -- Nigel Pegrum, "didjeridu-friendly sections," and what constitutes an "indigenous" CD : an Australian case study of producing "world music" recordings / Karl Neuenfeldt -- Music mediated as live in Austin : sound, technology, and recording practice / Thomas Porcello -- Media as social action : native American musicians in the recording studio / Beverley Diamond -- Engineering techno-hybrid grooves in two Indonesian sound studios / Jeremy Wallach -- Short-circuiting perceptual systems : timbre in ambient and techno music / Cornelia Fales -- "Heaviness" in the perception of heavy metal guitar timbres : the match of perceptual and acoustic features over time / Harris M. Berger, Cornelia Fales -- Mixed messages : unsettled cosmopolitanisms in Nepali pop / Paul D. Greene -- The soundscape of the radio : engineering Modern songs and superculture in Nepal / Ingemar Grandin -- Music and the rise of radio in twenties America : technological imperialism, socialization, and the transformation of intimacy / Timothy D. Taylor
Summary Annotation Ethnographically-grounded studies of technology in global music
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject World music -- History and criticism
Sound -- Recording and reproducing.
Ethnomusicology.
ethnomusicology.
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
Ethnomusicology
Sound -- Recording and reproducing
World music
Technologie.
Muziek.
Etnomusicologie.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Greene, Paul D
Porcello, Thomas
LC no. 2004016021
ISBN 9780819570628
0819570621
1283128306
9781283128308
9786613128300
6613128309