Code Musicology

From Hardwired to Software

Denis Crowdy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

158 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0921-0 (ISBN)

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Code Musicology opens a conduit between musicology and software studies. It extends an ethnomusicology of technoculture from the world of hardware and the hardwired to software, code, and algorithms and directs attention to IT industries and software-centered transnational commerce as a result of sectorial transformation.

Software mediates a great deal of human musical activity. The writing, running, and maintenance of code lies at the heart of such software. Code Musicology: From Hardwired to Software argues why it is time for a “code musicology,” then outlines what that should entail. A code musicology opens a conduit between musicology and software studies, providing insights into both of these now interlinked fields along the way. It extends an ethnomusicology of technoculture from the world of hardware and the hardwired to software, code, and algorithms. For popular music studies, it helps direct attention to a newly relevant industrial focus—IT and software-centered transnational commerce—as a result of sectorial transformation.
Denis Crowdy demonstrates how analysis from software studies, critical code studies, and the digital humanities offers insights into power relations, diversity, and commerce in music. Crowdy weaves readings of code and application programming interfaces (APIs) into the discussion, as well as ethnomusicological fieldwork exploring music and mobile phones from the Global South. Analysis of the author’s own music apps and associated distribution infrastructure provides unique insights into the machinations of music “appification.”

Denis Crowdy is senior lecturer at Macquarie University.

Introduction: The Rise of Code
Chapter 1: The Life of Code
Chapter 2: Life around Code
Chapter 3: Coding Constraints
Chapter 4: Coding Aesthetics
Chapter 5: A Software Development Perspective
Chapter 6: Code on the Move
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Critical Perspectives on Music and Society
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w illustrations; 1 tables; 5 textboxes;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 229 mm
Gewicht	240 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
ISBN-10	1-6669-0921-1 / 1666909211
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-0921-0 / 9781666909210
Zustand	Neuware