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UNINA9910821023903321 |
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Autore |
Gopinath Sumanth S |
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Titolo |
The ringtone dialectic : economy and cultural form / / Sumanth Gopinath |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-31509-2 |
0-262-31508-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ring tones - Social aspects |
Cell phones - Social aspects |
Cell phone services industry |
Mobile games industry |
Internet entertainment industry |
Digital media - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I The Rise and Fall of the Ringtone Economy; 1 This Business of Ringtones; II Ramifications of the Ringtone's Identity Crisis; 2 Ringtones and the Deskilling of Mobile-Musical Labor; 3 Left Behind; 4 The Ringtone and Its Aesthetic Subgenres in Contemporary Classical Music and Media Performance/Installation Art; III The Ringtone's Dialectical Reversals; 5 The Annoying Thing; 6 The Voice of the Politician and the Geographic Dispersion of the Political Ringtone; 7 A Spectrum of Forms; IV Revivals and the (Universal) Particularization of the Ringtone |
8 Personalization and Spectatorship9 What's in a Name? Race and the Ringtone's Revival in (Un-)Popular Music; Epilogue; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A decade ago, the customisable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalised ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry and almost as quickly faded away. This book charts the rise and fall of the ringtone economy and assesses its effect on cultural production. |
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