Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era - Hardcover

Rambarran, Shara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501333607 ISBN 13: 9781501333606

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Synopsis

Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where ‘the digital won’t let [us] go…’ Technology has revolutionized music, especially in the 21st century where the traditional rules and conventions of music creation, consumption, distribution, promotion, and performance have been erased and substituted with unthinkable and exciting methods in which absolutely anyone can explore, enjoy, and participate in creating and listening to music. Virtual Music explores the interactive relationship of sound, music, and image, and its users (creators/musicians/performers/audience/consumers). Areas involving the historical, technological, and creative practices of virtual music are surveyed including its connection with creators, musicians, performers, audience, and consumers. Shara Rambarran looks at the fascination and innovations surrounding virtual music, and illustrates key artists (such as Grace Jones, The Weeknd), creators (such as King Tubby, Kraftwerk, MadVillain, Danger Mouse), audiovisuals in video games and performances (such as Cuphead and Gorillaz), audiences, and consumers that contribute in making this musical experience a phenomenon. Whether it is interrogating the (un)realness of performers, modified identities of artists, technological manipulation of the Internet, music industry and music production, or accessible opportunities in creativity, the book offers a fresh understanding of virtual music and appeals to readers who have an interest in this digital revolution.

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About the Author

Shara Rambarran is Assistant Professor of music at BISC UK (Queen's University, Canada). Her research interests include musicology, postproduction, digital technology, music industry, education and law. She is an editor on the Journal on the Art of Record Production and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501333607
• ISBN 13: 9781501333606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246