Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754657213 ISBN 13: 9780754657217

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity focuses on the new and emerging synergies of music and digital technology within the new knowledge economies. Eighteen scholars representing six international perspectives explore the global and local ramifications of rapidly changing new technologies on creative industries, local communities, music practitioners and consumers. Diverse areas are considered, such as production, consumption, historical and cultural context, legislation, globalization and the impact upon the individual. Drawing on a range of musical genres from jazz, heavy metal, hip-hop and trance, and through several detailed case studies reflecting on the work of professional and local amateur artists, this book offers an important discussion of the ways in which the face of music is changing. Approaching these areas from a cultural studies perspective, this text will be a valuable tool for anyone engaged in the study of popular culture, music or digital technologies.

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Gerry Bloustien

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754657213
• ISBN 13: 9780754657217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Bloustien Gerry, Luckman Susan, Peters Margaret