Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century

Hans-Joachim Braun (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2002
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6885-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Technology has always been inseparable from the development of music. But in the twentieth century a rapid acceleration took place: a new "machine music" came into existence, electronic musical instruments appeared, and composers sometimes seemed more like sound technicians than musicians. In this book Hans-Joachim Braun and his co-authors offer a wide-ranging and fascinating look at the relationship of technology and modern music. Topics range from the role of Yamaha in Japan's musical development to the social construction of the synthesizer; from the player piano as precursor of computer music to the musical role of airplanes and locomotives; from the growth of one independent recording studio (from "Polka to Punk") to the origins of the 45-RPM record. Other chapters consider violin vibrato and the phonograph, Jimi Hendrix, and the aesthetic challenge of soundsampling. The book concludes with a look at the current situation, and perspectives for its future in electronic music. Contributors: Barbara Barthelmes, Karin Bijsterveld, Hans-Joachim Braun, Martha Brech, Hugh Davies, Bernd Enders, Geoffrey Hindley, Juergen Hocker, Mark Katz, Tatsuya Kobayashi, James P.
Kraft, Alexander B. Magoun, Rebecca McSwain, Andre Millard, Helga de la Motte-Haber, Trevor Pinch, Susan Schmidt-Horning, and Frank Trocco.

Autor

Hans-Joachim Braun is a professor of modern social, economic, and technological history at the Universitat der Bundeswehr in Hamburg, Germany.

Inhalt

Contents:Introduction Keyboards, Crankshafts and Communication Electronic Instruments It all Began with a Broken Organ The Social Contruction of the Early My Soul is in the Machine Music and the City Monin On A Servile Imitation From Polka to Punk The Orgins of the 45 rpm Record at RCA Victor Tape Recording and Music Making Musicians and the Sounf Revolution Aesthetics out of Exigency The Social Reconstruction of a Reverse Salient in Electrical Guitar Technology Sound Sampling New Technology Musical Education and the New Media

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2002
• Zusatzinfo: 7 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white
• Verlagsort: Baltimore, MD
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 476 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-8018-6885-8 / 0801868858
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-6885-6 / 9780801868856
• Zustand: Neuware