Any Sound You Can Imagine

Any Sound You Can Imagine
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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0819563099
ISBN-13 : 9780819563095
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Book Synopsis Any Sound You Can Imagine by : Paul Théberge

Download or read book Any Sound You Can Imagine written by Paul Théberge and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes digital musical instruments, industries that supply and promote them, and the meanings they have for musicians. Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Book Award (1997) Recent innovations in musical instrument design are not simply a response to the needs of musicians, writes Paul Théberge; they also have become "a driving force with which musicians must contend." He argues that digital synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers in studio production and in the home have caused musicians to rely increasingly on manufacturers for both the instruments themselves as well as the very sounds and musical patterns that they use to make music. Musical practices have thus become allied with a new type of consumer practice that is altogether different from earlier relationships between musicians and their instruments as a means of production. Théberge places these developments within a broad social and historical perspective that examines the development of the musical instrument industry, particularly the piano industry, the economic and cultural role of musicians' magazines and computer networks, and the fundamental relationships between musical concepts, styles, and technology.


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