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"The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous. At once a marketing term, a common mode of everyday-life performance, and an instigator of experimental aesthetics, ""mobile music"" opens up a space for studying the momentous transformations in the production, distribution, consumption, and experience of music and sound that took place between the late nineteenth and the early twenty-first centuries. Taken together, the two volumes cover a large swath of the world-the US, the UK, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, Mexico, France, China, Jamaica, Iraq, the Philippines, India, Sweden-and a similarly broad array of the musical and nonmusical sounds suffusing the soundscapes of mobility.Volume 2 investigates the ramifications of mobile music technologies on musical/sonic performance and aesthetics. Two core arguments are that ""mobility"" is not the same thing as actual ""movement"" and that artistic production cannot be absolutely sundered from the performances of quotidian life. The volume's chapters investigate the mobilization of frequency range by sirens and miniature speakers; sound vehicles such as boom cars, ice cream trucks, and trains; the gestural choreographies of soundwalk pieces and mundane interactions with digital media; dance music practices in laptop and iPod DJing; the imagery of iPod commercials; production practices in Turkish political music and black popular music; the aesthetics of handheld video games and chiptune music; and the mobile device as a new musical instrument and resource for musical ensembles."

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Author:   Sumanth Gopinath (Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) ,  Jason Stanyek (University Lecturer of Ethnomusicology, University Lecturer of Ethnomusicology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 25.10cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   1.091kg
ISBN:  

9780199913657

ISBN 10:   019991365
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   15 May 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Contents: 1. The Mobilization of Performance: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Mobile Music Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Stanyek Part I: Frequency-Range Aesthetics 2. Treble Culture Wayne Marshall 3. Of Sirens Old and New Alexander Rehding Part II: Sounding Transport 4. ""Cars With the Boom"": Music, Automobility, and Hip-hop ""Sub"" Cultures Justin Williams 5. Ding, Ding!: The Commodity Aesthetic of Ice Cream Truck Music Daniel T. Neely 6. There must be some relatIon beTween mushrOoms and trains: Alvin Curran's Boletus Edulis-Musica Pendolare Benjamin Piekut Part III: Walking and Bodily Choreography 7. Polyphonies of Footsteps Frauke Behrendt 8. Soundwalking: Creating Moving Environmental Sound Narratives Andra McCartney 9. Gestural Choreographies: Embodied Disciplines and Digital Media Harmony Bench Part IV: Dance and Dance Musics 10. (In)Visible Mediators: Urban Mobility, Interface Design, and the Disappearing Computer in Berlin-Based Laptop Performances Mark J. Butler 11. Turning the Tables: Digital Technologies and the Remixing of DJ Culture Christine Zanfagna and Levitt Brandin, Kate 12. Dancing Silhouettes: The Mobile Freedom of iPod Commercials Justin D. Burton Part V: Popular Music Production 13. Music, Mobility, and Distributed Recording Production in Turkish Political Music Eliot Bates 14. Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies Alexander Weheliye Part VI: Gaming Aesthetics 15. A History of Handheld and Mobile Video Game Sound Karen Collins 16. The Chiptuning of the World: Game Boys, Imagined Travel, and Musical Meaning Chris Tonelli 17. Rhythm Heaven: Video Games, Idols, and Other Experiences of Play Miki Kaneda Part VII: Mobile Music Instruments 18. The Mobile Phone Orchestra Ge Wang, Georg Essl, and Henri Penttinen 19. Creative Applications of Interactive Mobile Music Atau Tanaka 20. Music-Making and the iPhone: Notes From An Academic Entrepreneur Ge Wang"

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A very welcome and totally immersive experience. International Record Review

"""[A] very welcome and totally immersive experience."" --International Record Review"

[A] very welcome and totally immersive experience. --International Record Review

Author Information

Sumanth Gopinath is the author of The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form (2013). His writings on Steve Reich, musical minimalism, Marxism, academic politics, ringtones, Bob Dylan, and Benjamin Britten have appeared in scholarly journals including Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of the Society for American Music, and First Monday, and in the edited collections Sound Commitments, Highway 61 Revisited, and Music and Narrative since 1900. Jason Stanyek is University Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Oxford, where he is also Fellow and Tutor in Music at St John's College. His writings on Brazilian music, improvisation, music technology, and jazz have appeared in a range of academic journals and edited collections. Forthcoming books include a monograph on music and dance in the Brazilian diaspora and a volume (co-edited with Frederick Moehn) titled Brazil's Northern Wave: Fifty Years of Bossa Nova in the United States.

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