Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754657217)

Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity focuses on the new and emerging synergies of music and digital technology within the new knowledge economies. Eighteen scholars representing six international perspectives explore the global and local ramifications of rapidly changing new technologies on creative industries, local communities, music practitioners and consumers. Diverse areas are considered, such as production, consumption, historical and cultural context, legislation, globalization and the impact upon the individual. Drawing on a range of musical genres from jazz, heavy metal, hip-hop and trance, and through several detailed case studies reflecting on the work of professional and local amateur artists, this book offers an important discussion of the ways in which the face of music is changing. Approaching these areas from a cultural studies perspective, this text will be a valuable tool for anyone engaged in the study of popular culture, music or digital technologies.

Author: Gerry Bloustien
ISBN-10: 0754657213
ISBN-13: 9780754657217
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2008
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/25/2008 pg. 17
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 265