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The Player Piano and Musical Labor - The Ghost in the Machine (Hardcover)
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The Player Piano and Musical Labor - The Ghost in the Machine (Hardcover)
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By the early 20th century the machine aesthetic was a
well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally
transformed musical performance and listening practices. While
numerous scholars have examined this aesthetic in art and
literature, musical compositions representing industrialized labor
practices and the role of the machine in music remain largely
unexplored. Moreover, in recounting the history of machines in
musical recording and reproduction, scholars often tend to
emphasize the phonograph, rather than player piano, despite the
latter's prominence within the newly established musical
marketplace. Machines and their music influenced multiple areas of
early 20th-century musical culture, from film scores to popular
music and even the concert hall. But the opposite was also true:
industrialized labor practices changed the musical marketplace and
musical culture as a whole. As consumers accepted mechanical
replacements for what previously required an active human laborer,
ghostly, mechanical performers labored tirelessly in parlors,
businesses, and even concert halls. Although the player piano
failed to maintain a stronghold in the recorded music marketplace
after 1930, the widespread acceptance of recording technologies as
media for storing and enjoying music indicates a much more
fundamental societal shift. This book explores that shift,
examining the rise and fall of the player piano in early
20th-century society and connecting it to the digital technologies
of today.
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