The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music
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Part of Cambridge Companions to Music
- Editors:
- Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge
- Eric Clarke, University of Oxford
- Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, King's College London
- John Rink, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: November 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521684613
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From the cylinder to the download, the practice of music has been radically transformed by the development of recording and playback technologies. This Companion provides a detailed overview of the transformation, encompassing both classical and popular music. Topics covered include the history of recording technology and the businesses built on it; the impact of recording on performance styles; studio practices, viewed from the perspectives of performer, producer and engineer; and approaches to the study of recordings. The main chapters are interspersed by 'short takes' - short contributions by different practitioners, ranging from classical or pop producers and performers to record collectors. Combining basic information with a variety of perspectives on records and recordings, this book will appeal not only to students in a range of subjects from music to the media, but also to general readers interested in a fundamental yet insufficiently understood dimension of musical culture.
Read more- Contains a large number of 'personal takes' by practitioners and performers, which complement the main chapters and engage a wide variety of readers
- The definitive resource on this popular topic for students and other readers in areas ranging from musicology to popular culture and the media
- The contributors are internationally renowned experts acknowledged as leaders in their field
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'… the contributors (some 35 of them, counting the editors) form a lively company of writers and have the agreeable art of expressing opinions without seeming opinionated.' Gramophone
See more reviews'Effortlessly embracing the worlds of popular and classical music, what results is something really rather dazzling in its scope and scale.' Classical Music
'This collection of essays offers many useful insights for both musicologists studying Western art music and scholars working within popular music studies. The book covers a wide range of topics within the remit of an exploration of recorded music, an area of study that has seen some noteworthy publications in the last decade.' The Journal of Popular Music
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- Date Published: November 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521684613
- length: 380 pages
- dimensions: 247 x 173 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.75kg
- contains: 25 b/w illus. 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Eric Clarke, Nicholas Cook, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and John Rink
Personal takes: learning to live with recording Susan Tomes
A short take in praise of long takes Peter Hill
1. Performing for (and against) the microphone Donald Greig
Personal takes: producing a credible voice Mike Howlett
'It could have happened': the evolution of music construction Steve Savage
2. Recording practices and the role of the producer Andrew Blake
Personal takes: still small voices Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Broadening horizons: 'performance' in the studio Michael Haas
3. Getting sounds: the art of sound engineering Albin Zak
Personal takes: limitations and creativity in recording and performance Martyn Ware
Records and recordings in post-punk England, 1978–80 Richard Witts
4. The politics of the recording studio Louise Meintjes
Personal take: from Lanza to Lassus Tully Potter
5. From wind-up to iPod: techno-cultures of listening Arild Bergh and Tia DeNora
Personal take: a matter of circumstance: on experiencing recordings Martin Elste
6. Selling sounds: recordings and the music business David Patmore
Personal take: revisiting concert life in mid-century: the survival of acetate discs Lewis Foreman
7. The development of recording technologies George Brock-Nannestad
Personal takes: raiders of the lost archive Roger Beardsley
The original cast recording of West Side Story Nigel Simeone
8. The recorded document: interpretation and discography Simon Trezise
Personal takes: one man's approach to remastering Ted Kendall
Technology, the studio, music Nick Mason
Reminder: a recording is not a performance Roger Heaton
9. Methods for analysing recordings Nicholas Cook
10. Recordings and histories of performance style Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Personal take: recreating history: a clarinettist's perspective Colin Lawson
11. Going critical. Writing about recordings Simon Frith
Personal take: something in the air Chris Watson
12. Afterword: from reproduction to representation to remediation Georgina Born
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