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The Relentless Pursuit of Tone - Timbre in Popular Music (Hardcover)
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The Relentless Pursuit of Tone - Timbre in Popular Music (Hardcover)
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The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a
broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound"
functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from
the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings to
the crunch of amplified guitars and the thump of subwoofers on the
dance floor, this volume bridges the gap between timbre, our name
for the purely acoustic characteristics of sound waves, and tone,
an emergent musical construct that straddles the borderline between
the perceptual and the political. Essays engage with the entire
history of popular music as recorded sound, from the 1930s to the
present day, under four large categories. "Genre" asks how sonic
signatures define musical identities and publics; "Voice" considers
the most naturalized musical instrument, the human voice, as racial
and gendered signifier, as property or likeness, and as raw
material for algorithmic perfection through software; "Instrument"
tells stories of the way some iconic pop music machines-guitars,
strings, synthesizers-got (or lost) their distinctive sounds;
"Production" then puts it all together, asking structural questions
about what happens in a recording studio, what is produced (sonic
cartoons? rockist authenticity? empty space?) and what it all might
mean.
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