Sounds, Screens, and Speakers : An Introduction to Music and Media
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SUMARIO /// Overview: All Media Are Social Media: Concepts, Materials, Methods / Key Reading: "From Music Publishing to MP3: Music and Industry in the 20th Century" ; Reebee Garofalo // Part 1: The Early Recording Industry, 1875 to 1940. / Key Reading: A collection of gramophone and phonograph ads from the early 20th century./ 1. Mediated Music, Fidelity, and Social AnxietyFocus: Selling the Phonograph / 2. Sound Recordings and Radio in the 'Jazz Age'Focus: The Devil's Music / 3. `Microphone Singing' and the Short Musical FilmFocus: Crooners and `Real' Singers / 4. The Global Gramophone / Focus: The Recorded Music of the `Black Atlantic' // Part 2: Bigger, Better, Louder, Longer, 1930 to 1970. / Key Reading: Introduction to Rock `N' Film ; David James / 5. The Triumph of the Film Musical / Focus: Two Films with Frank Sinatra / 6. The `Youth' Movie and the 45 / Focus: Marlon, Jimmy, and Elvis on Film / Key Reading: Chasing Sound: The Culture and Technology of Recording Studios in Postwar America ; Susan Horning / 7. FM Radio and the Long Playing Record / Focus: Freeform Radio / 8. Magnetic Tape and the Recording Studio / Focus: The Producer: Tom Dowd of Atlantic Records // Part 3: New Forms of Media, New Kinds of Fame, 1960 to 2000 / Key Reading: Music, Image, Labor: Television's Prehistory; Murray Forman / 9. Music on Television in the 1960s and 70s / Focus: "Our World" and "Elvis" / 10. MTV and the Evolution of the Short Musical Film / Focus: From Playing Music Videos to Branding Musical Fame / 11. The Popular Music Documentary / Focus: "Don't Look Back" and the `Great Art' of Bob Dylan / 12. Rock Film at the End of the 20th Century / Focus: "Meeting People Is Easy" and the `Great Art' of Radiohead // Part Four: Clouds, Crowds, and Idols, 1980 to 2015 / Key Reading: The Heavenly Jukebox ; Charles Mann / 13. New Ways to Connect / Focus: The Invention and Spread of the MP3 / 14. The Catastrophe of Napster, the Opportunities of Digital / Focus: Napster v. The Music Industry / 15. Music-Based Reality TV / Focus: The Idol Journey / 16. Streaming, Clouds, and the Dematerialization of Music / Focus: Curating Music in the Playlist Economy // Index.
Sounds, Screens, Speakers makes a deeply important contribution to the field of musical media studies. At once erudite and approachable, it brings the fundamental story of 20th- and 21st-century music to light brilliantly. / Sounds, Screens, Speakers shows how music, moving media, and their changing technologies shape who we are. Its fluid, concise descriptions and provocative questions, alongside creative case studies and rich resources, make for engaging reading. Deftly handling a kaleidoscope of material, this book captures the major trends, the contributions of long-marginalized groups, and yet-untold stories. In surprising ways, this book tells us something new about America. / Sounds, Screens, Speakers provides a broadly comprehensive survey of the emerging field of music and media. Music has been present at the advent of nearly every new media form since the turn of the 20th century. Whether we look at the start of sound recording, film, television or the Internet, music has been a crucial participant in the social changes brought about by these new tools for making and listening to music. This book examines such changes starting in the late 19th century to the present. From the introduction of the microphone all the way through to music in reality television, the purpose of each section is not simply to move chronologically towards the present, but to focus especially on the tangible social relationships created through specific forms of mediation. With readings at the end of most chapters, key questions to facilitate additional discovery and research, and direction to additional readings and resources on popular websites and news sources, this text serves as the ideal introduction to popular music and media.