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Digital signatures : the impact of digitization on popular music sound /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild (Author), Danielsen, Anne (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Popular music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Popular music > Production and direction.
Sound > Recording and reproducing > Digital techniques.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : digital technology and popular music sound
  • Making sense of digital spatiality : Kate Bush's eerie collage
  • The instrument formerly known as the machine : hyper-accuracy and sonic richness in Prince's "Kiss"
  • The rebirth of silence in the company of noise : Portishead going retro
  • Cut-ups and glitches : the freeze and flow of Los Sampler's and Squarepusher
  • Seasick computers : microrhythmic manipulation in the era of endless undo
  • Autotuned voices : alienation and "brokenhearted androids"
  • Popular music in the digital era.