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Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction (Paperback)
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Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction (Paperback)
Series: Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century
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It is undeniable that technology has made a tangible impact on the
nature of musical listening. The new media have changed our
relationship with music in a myriad of ways, not least because the
experience of listening can now be prolonged at will and repeated
at any time and in any space. Moreover, among the more striking
social phenomena ushered in by the technological revolution, one
cannot fail to mention music's current status as a commodity and
popular music's unprecedented global reach. In response to these
new social and perceptual conditions, the act of listening has
diversified into a wide range of patterns of behaviour which seem
to resist any attempt at unification. Concentrated listening, the
form of musical reception fostered by Western art music, now
appears to be but one of the many ways in which audiences respond
to organized sound. Cinema, for example, has developed specific
ways of combining images and sounds; and, more recently, digital
technology has redefined the standard forms of mass communication.
Information is aestheticized, and music in turn is incorporated
into pre-existing symbolic fields. This volume - the first in the
series Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century - offers a
wide-ranging exploration of the relations between sound, technology
and listening practices, considered from the complementary
perspectives of art music and popular music, music theatre and
multimedia, composition and performance, ethnographic and
anthropological research.
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