California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media – serie
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21 produkter
Composer's Black Box
Making Music in Cybernetic America
Häftad, 2025
341 kr
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Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? And what consequences do those new dynamics have for …
Thinking with an Accent
Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Av Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
315 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Everyone speaks with an accent, but what is an accent? Thinking with an Accent introduces accent as a powerfully coded yet …
Static in the System
Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture
Inbunden, 2019
1190 kr
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In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening cultures to form across time. Connecting this history of noise in the cinema to a greater sonic …
Static in the System
Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture
Häftad, 2019
456 kr
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In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening cultures to form across time. Connecting this history of noise in the cinema to a greater sonic …
Hearing Luxe Pop
Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music
Av John Howland
Inbunden, 2021
844 kr
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Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has long thrived in American popular music, in which popular-music idioms are merged with lush string orchestrations and big-band instrumentation. John Howland presents an alternative music history that centers on shifts in timbre and …
Hearing Luxe Pop
Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music
Av John Howland
Häftad, 2021
271 kr
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Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has long thrived in American popular music, in which popular-music idioms are merged with lush string orchestrations and big-band instrumentation. John Howland presents an alternative music history that centers on shifts in timbre and …
Just Beyond Listening
Essays of Sonic Encounter
Inbunden, 2023
756 kr
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Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual …
Just Beyond Listening
Essays of Sonic Encounter
Häftad, 2023
556 kr
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Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual …
Making Stereo Fit
The History of a Disquieting Film Technology
Inbunden, 2024
734 kr
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Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a century, since the advent of talking pictures, …
Making Stereo Fit
The History of a Disquieting Film Technology
Häftad, 2024
263 kr
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Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a century, since the advent of talking pictures, …
Key Constellations
Interpreting Tonality in Film
Inbunden, 2023
844 kr
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Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work’s musical identity—so why isn’t it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film is the first book to investigate film soundtracks—including …
Key Constellations
Interpreting Tonality in Film
Häftad, 2023
315 kr
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Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work’s musical identity—so why isn’t it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film is the first book to investigate film soundtracks—including …
Sonic Infrastructures
Mediating National Cinemas in West and South Asia
Häftad, 2026
315 kr
Kommande
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Sonic Infrastructures traces how sound shaped the transregional movement of cinema across the Middle East and South Asia from the …
Automatic Artistry
Negotiating Musical Creativity in a Technological Age
Inbunden, 2026
844 kr
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Musicians have access to an ever-growing array of technological tools, creating a world rich with new artistic possibilities. Yet the incursion of automation technology into creative pursuits has long sparked panic about the threat to human creativity and authenticity. Relating a 120-year history …
Automatic Artistry
Negotiating Musical Creativity in a Technological Age
Häftad, 2026
271 kr
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Musicians have access to an ever-growing array of technological tools, creating a world rich with new artistic possibilities. Yet the incursion of automation technology into creative pursuits has long sparked panic about the threat to human creativity and authenticity. Relating a 120-year history …
Composer's Black Box
Making Music in Cybernetic America
Inbunden, 2025
844 kr
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Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer's Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? And what consequences do those new dynamics have for …
Preprogrammed
How Electronic Presets Changed Music and Media
Inbunden, 2026
844 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.How much of your life is preprogrammed? Presets, or default settings on technology, can be found everywhere, from predictive text …
Preprogrammed
How Electronic Presets Changed Music and Media
Häftad, 2026
635 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.How much of your life is preprogrammed? Presets, or default settings on technology, can be found everywhere, from predictive text …
Sonic Infrastructures
Mediating National Cinemas in West and South Asia
Inbunden, 2026
844 kr
Kommande
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Sonic Infrastructures traces how sound shaped the transregional movement of cinema across the Middle East and South Asia from the …
Sonic Surrogate
Music, Technology, and the Crisis of Reproduction
Inbunden, 2026
844 kr
Kommande
Interrogating the proliferation of audio apps, smart speakers, sleep aids, and prenatal sound systems that promise a better life through sound, this book explores how these technologies came to be promoted as a cheap solution for capitalism’s inevitable crisis of reproduction. Marie Thompson shows …
Sonic Surrogate
Music, Technology, and the Crisis of Reproduction
Häftad, 2026
271 kr
Kommande
Interrogating the proliferation of audio apps, smart speakers, sleep aids, and prenatal sound systems that promise a better life through sound, this book explores how these technologies came to be promoted as a cheap solution for capitalism’s inevitable crisis of reproduction. Marie Thompson shows …
