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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 September 2011
      26 November 2009
      ISBN:
      9781139002684
      9780521865821
      9780521684613
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521865821
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.88kg, 380 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 380 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Music
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Music
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    From the cylinder to the download, the practice of music has been radically transformed by the development of recording and playback technologies. This Companion provides a detailed overview of the transformation, encompassing both classical and popular music. Topics covered include the history of recording technology and the businesses built on it; the impact of recording on performance styles; studio practices, viewed from the perspectives of performer, producer and engineer; and approaches to the study of recordings. The main chapters are interspersed by 'short takes' - short contributions by different practitioners, ranging from classical or pop producers and performers to record collectors. Combining basic information with a variety of perspectives on records and recordings, this book will appeal not only to students in a range of subjects from music to the media, but also to general readers interested in a fundamental yet insufficiently understood dimension of musical culture.

    Reviews

    '… the contributors (some 35 of them, counting the editors) form a lively company of writers and have the agreeable art of expressing opinions without seeming opinionated.'

    Source: Gramophone

    'Effortlessly embracing the worlds of popular and classical music, what results is something really rather dazzling in its scope and scale.'

    Source: Classical Music

    'This collection of essays offers many useful insights for both musicologists studying Western art music and scholars working within popular music studies. The book covers a wide range of topics within the remit of an exploration of recorded music, an area of study that has seen some noteworthy publications in the last decade.'

    Source: The Journal of Popular Music

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