The relentless pursuit of tone : timbre in popular music /
The Relentless Pursuit of Tone investigates the many ways tone and timbre function in popular music. From the twang of the banjo to the thump of subwoofers on the dance floor, the authors engage with the entire history of popular music as recorded sound, from the 1930s to the present day.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Chasing the dragon : in search of tone in popular music / Robert Fink, Zachary Wallmark, and Melinda Latour
- Genre. Hearing timbre : perceptual learning among early Bay Area ravers / Cornelia Fales ; The twang factor in country music / Jocelyn R. Neal ; The sound of evil : timbre, body, and sacred violence in death metal / Zachary Wallmark ; Below 100 Hz : toward a musicology of subbass / Robert Fink
- Voice. Timbre and legal likeness : the case of Tom Waits / Mark C. Samples ; The triumph of Jimmy Scott : a voice beyond category / Nina Sun Eidsheim ; Auto-Tune, labor, and the pop music voice / Catherine Provenzano
- Instrument. Hearing luxe pop : Jay Z, Isaac Hayes, and the six degrees of symphonic soul / John Howland ; Santana and the metaphysics of tone : feedback loops, volume knobs, and the quest for transcendence / Melinda Latour ; Synthesizers as social protest in early 1970s funk / Griffin Woodworth ; Crossing the electronic divide : guitars, synthesizers, and the shifting sound field of fusion / Steve Waksman
- Production. Clash of the timbres : recording authenticity in the California rock scene, 1966-68 / Jan Butler ; The death rattle of a laughing hyena : the sound of musical democracy / Albin J. Zak III ; The sound of nowhere : reverb and the construction of sonic space / Paul Théberge ; The spectromorphology of recorded popular music : the shaping of sonic cartoons through record production / Simon Zagorski-Thomas
- Afterword / Simon Frith.