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Bytes and Backbeats
Steve Savage
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Description for Bytes and Backbeats
Paperback. An examination of how musical activity has been transformed by contemporary production practices Series: Tracking Pop S. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
From Attali's ""cold social silence"" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music practice, and critical analysis to challenge many of these traditional attitudes about the creation and reception of music. Savage adopts the notion of ""repurposing"" as central to understanding how every aspect of musical activity, from creation to reception, has been transformed, arguing that the tension within production between a naturalising ""art"" and a self-conscious ""artifice"" reflects and feeds into our evolving ... Read more
From Attali's ""cold social silence"" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music practice, and critical analysis to challenge many of these traditional attitudes about the creation and reception of music. Savage adopts the notion of ""repurposing"" as central to understanding how every aspect of musical activity, from creation to reception, has been transformed, arguing that the tension within production between a naturalising ""art"" and a self-conscious ""artifice"" reflects and feeds into our evolving ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Series
Tracking Pop S.
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472035533
SKU
V9780472035533
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About Steve Savage
Steve Savage teaches musicology in the humanities department at San Francisco State University, USA and is an active record producer and recording engineer. He has been the primary engineer on seven records that received Grammy nominations.
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