| Edition |
John Hopkins ed. |
| Description |
256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Papers from 'Technology and music', part of the 23rd Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) in Budapest, August 1996. |
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Originally published: [Hofheim] : Wolke, c2000, under title: 'I sing the body electric' : music and technology in the 20th century. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 early electronic music 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 -- 'Movin' on': trains and planes as a theme in music / Hans-Joachim Braun -- A servile imitation: disputes about machines in music, 1910-1930 / Karin Bijsterveld -- 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 / James P. Kraft -- Aesthetics out of exigency: violin vibrato and the phonograph / Mark Katz -- The social reconstruction of a reverse salient in electrical guitar technology: noise, the solid body, 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. |
| Subject |
Music and technology -- Congresses.
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Music and technology. |
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Electronic music -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Electronic music. |
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Braun, Hans-Joachim.
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International Committee for the History of Technology.
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Symposium ICOHTEC (23rd : 1996 : Budapest, Hungary)
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| Added Title |
I sing the body electric.
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| ISBN |
0801868858 cloth alkaline paper |
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