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Listening to or Through Technology: Opaque and Transparent Mediation

Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen

Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen

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Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...Despite an emerging interest in analysing the technological aspects of popular music production (Bayley 2010; Cook et al. 2009; Frith and Zagorski-Thomas 2016), scholars continue to lack a conceptual framework for addressing previously...

Conclusion

Pete Dale

Pete Dale is a Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Popular Music and the Politics of Novelty

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...A radio interview with Philip Glass broadcast on Radio 4’s Today programme, Thursday 10 Oct 2014, reflected a core element of the mindset I have been critiquing in this book. The interviewer, John Humphrys, presumed that the following...

Out of sight: The mediation of the music festival

Mark Goodall

Mark Goodall

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The Pop Festival : History, Music, Media, Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The children danced night and day. The pop festival grows from nothing; it rises up from an empty space into an audio-visual spectacle, captivating the thousands of individuals who have made the pilgrimage to witness...

Gebrauchsmusik

Peter Wicke

Center for Popular Music Research, The Humboldt Univeristy, Berlin Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI : Genres: Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Gebrauchsmusik, literally ‘music to be used,’ is a term coined in 1921 by the German ethnomusicologist Paul Nettl (1889–1972) to refer to music the primary purpose of which – in contrast to ‘art music’ – is some kind of practical activity...

Thomas Mapfumo

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...The songs of Thomas Mapfumo, the “Lion of Zimbabwe,” soundtracked the years on either end of Rhodesia’s independence, and later echoed a growing public criticism of Robert Mugabe. Born southeast of the capital city Harare in 1945, Mapfumo...

2004 (Bowie vs Mashup)

Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore is Lecturer in Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia. His main areas of interest are Games Studies, Digital Humanities and Online Persona, and he recently co-edited the collectionZombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction The aim of this chapter is to revisit the ‘mashup’ competition David Bowie conducted as part of the promotional strategies for the North American leg of his ‘A Reality Tour’ in early 2004. In order to understand Bowie...

Intermixtuality: Case Studies in Online Music (Re)production

Samantha Bennett

Samantha Bennett is Associate Professor of Music at the Australian National University. Her work is published in Popular Music, Popular Music and Society and The Journal of Popular Music Studies. She is the author of the upcoming book Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Peepshow, part of Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...Introduction This chapter explores remix practice within online music communities, specifically the ways in which participants engage with remix contests and mix stems. In “The Listener as Remixer,” I defined mix stems as, “unlike a full...

Time Again: The David Bowie Chronotope

Will Brooker

Will Brooker

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...‘One day,’ David Bowie promised in 1984, in his song ‘Blue Jean’, ‘I’m gonna write a poem in a letter.’ In 1997, he effectively kept that promise, releasing ‘Battle For Britain (The Letter)’, which explicitly offers the song and its lyric...

Youssou N'Dour

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...Often described as one of the most popular singers in Africa, Youssou N’Dour played an important role in the popularization and secularization of Senegalese music in the late twentieth century. Born in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, in 1959...