Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and
technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital
playback devices. This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive
and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional
views of music and technology. In its most common use, "music
technology" tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first
century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment,
music notation software, and the like. This volume, however, treats
all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music-new
or old, electronic or not-as technologies worthy of investigation.
All musical instruments can be considered technologies. The modern
piano, for example, is a marvel of keys, hammers, strings, pedals,
dampers, and jacks; just the sound-producing mechanism, or action,
on a piano has more than 50 different parts. In this broad view,
technology in music encompasses instruments, whether acoustic,
electric or electronic; engraving and printing; sound recording and
playback; broadcasting; software; and much more. Mark Katz
challenges the view that technology is unnatural, something
external to music. It was sometimes said in the early twentieth
century that so-called mechanical music (especially player pianos
and phonographs) was a menace to "real" music; alternatively,
technology can be freighted with utopian hopes and desires, as
happens today with music streaming platforms like Spotify. Positive
or negative, these views assume that technology is something that
acts upon music; by contrast, this volume characterizes technology
as an integral part of all musical activity and portrays
traditional instruments and electronic machines as equally
technological.
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