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Bytes and Backbeats : Repurposing Music in the Digital Age

Authors :
Savage, Steve
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
University of Michigan Press, 2011.

Abstract

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 naturalizing "art" and a self-conscious "artifice" reflects and feeds into our evolving notions of creativity, authenticity, and community.

Subjects

Subjects :
Music / History & Criticism

Details

Language :
English
ISBN :
978-0-472-90118-0
0-472-90118-4
ISBNs :
9780472901180 and 0472901184
Database :
Open Research Library
Publication Type :
Book
Accession number :
edsors.b306aeab.d698.4cce.9ed9.6000722b6c4c
Document Type :
BOOK