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Title 'I sing the body electric' : music and technology in the 20th century / Hans-Joachim Braun (ed.).

Publication Info. [Hofheim] : Wolke, [2000]
©2000

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Description 253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note The origins for this book come from a session on Technology and music at the 23rd Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) in Budapest, August 1996.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Keyboards, crankshafts and communication, the musical mindset of western technology / Geoffrey Hindley -- Electronic instruments--classifications and mechanisms / Hugh Davies -- 'It all began with a broken organ'--the role of Yamaha in Japan's music development / Tatsuya Kobayashi -- The social construction of the synthesizer / Trevor Pinch & Frank Trocco -- My soul is in the machine--Conlon Nancarrow--composer for player piano--precursor of computer music / Jürgen Hocker -- Music and the city / Barbara Berthelmes -- 'Moving on'--airplanes and locomotives in 20th century music / Hans-Joachim Braun -- 'A servile imitation'--disputes about machines in music, 1910-1930 / Karin Bijsterveld -- Sound microscopy and music in the 20th century, a survey with special reference to Hungary / István Pintér -- From polka to punk--growth of an independent recording studio, 1934-1977 / Susan Schmidt-Horning -- The origins of the 45-rpm record at RCA Victor, 1939-1948 / Alexander B. Magoun -- Tape recording and music making / Andre Millard -- Musicians and the sound revolution--business, labor, and technology in America, 1890-1950 / Jame P. Kraft -- Aesthetics out of exigency, violin vibrato and the phonograph / Mark Katz -- Reversing the reverse salient in electric guitar technology--noise, humbuckers and Jimi Hendrix / Rebecca McSwain -- Soundsampling--an aesthetic challenge / Helga de la Motte-Haber -- New technology--new artistic genres--changes in the concept and aesthetics of music / Martha Brech -- Musical education and the new media--the current situation and perspectives for the future / Bernd Enders.
Language English text.
Subject Music and technology -- Congresses.
Music and technology.
Electronic music -- Congresses.
Electronic music.
Genre/Form Electronic music.
Subject Music -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics -- Congresses.
Music.
International Committee for the History of Technology.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Braun, H.-J. (Hans-Joachim), editor.
International Committee for the History of Technology.
Symposium ICOHTEC (23rd : 1996 : Budapest, Hungary)
Added Title Music and technology in the 20th century
ISBN 392399785X
9783923997855