{"product_id":"bone-flute-to-auto-tune-deirdre-loughridge-9780226852119","title":"Bone Flute to Auto-Tune: Forty Thousand Years of Music Technology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn accessible history of music technology from the earliest days to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver forty thousand years ago, humans fashioned flutes from bone. Ever since, music-making has continued to be motivated and shaped by technological innovations. The first book to offer a history of western music through the lens of tools, \u003ci\u003eBone Flute to Auto-Tune\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between music and technology from the Paleolithic Age to the present day. Taking an expansive view of music technology, Deirdre Loughridge develops critical perspectives on how the past is built into the present, the affordances and constraints of tools, and the trade-offs made in adopting one tool rather than another. By examining music-technological transitions from across history, including the violin, piano, cymbal, electric guitar, and synthesizer, \u003ci\u003eBone Flute to Auto-Tune\u003c\/i\u003e thinks through how and why certain changes have taken place and shows how earlier eras have been built into later technologies, influencing not only the sound of our music but also what our tools help us and hinder us from doing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a music history attuned to the possibilities that new technologies open up or reveal and those they foreclose or conceal, and that considers what is gained and lost in the transition from one technology to another. By identifying turning points and trade-offs, a long historical perspective enables us to see alternate paths along which music technologies might have developed, and to grapple with our own moment in the ongoing interplay between technological change and the enduring human need for music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deirdre Loughridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226852113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226852119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Deirdre Loughridge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48930373533951,"sku":"9780226852119","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bone-flute-to-auto-tune-deirdre-loughridge-9780226852119","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}