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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2011
Print publication year:
2009
Online ISBN:
9781139002684

Book description

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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Contents


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  • Frontmatter
    pp i-xviii
  • Introduction
    pp 1-9
  • Learning to live with recording
    pp 10-12
  • A short take in praise of long takes
    pp 13-15
  • 1 - Performing for (and against) the microphone
    pp 16-29
  • Producing a credible vocal
    pp 30-31
  • ‘It could have happened’: The evolution of music construction
    pp 32-35
  • 2 - Recording practices and the role of the producer
    pp 36-53
  • Still small voices
    pp 54-58
  • Broadening horizons: ‘Performance’ in the studio
    pp 59-62
  • 3 - Getting sounds: The art of sound engineering
    pp 63-76
  • Limitations and creativity in recording and performance
    pp 77-79
  • Records and recordings in post-punk England, 1978–80
    pp 80-83
  • 4 - The politics of the recording studio: A case study from South Africa
    pp 84-97
  • From Lanza to Lassus
    pp 98-101
  • 5 - From wind-up to iPod: Techno-cultures of listening
    pp 102-115
  • A matter of circumstance: On experiencing recordings
    pp 116-119
  • 6 - Selling sounds: Recordings and the record business
    pp 120-139
  • Revisiting concert life in the mid-century: The survival of acetate discs
    pp 140-148
  • 7 - The development of recording technologies
    pp 149-176
  • Raiders of the lost archive
    pp 177-180
  • The original cast recording of West Side Story
    pp 181-185
  • 8 - The recorded document: Interpretation and discography
    pp 186-209
  • One man's approach to remastering
    pp 210-213
  • Technology, the studio, music
    pp 214-216
  • Reminder: A recording is not a performance
    pp 217-220
  • 9 - Methods for analysing recordings
    pp 221-245
  • 10 - Recordings and histories of performance style
    pp 246-262
  • Recreating history: A clarinettist's retrospective
    pp 263-266
  • 11 - Going critical: Writing about recordings
    pp 267-282

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