03207nam 2200697 a 450 991045253620332120200520144314.00-262-31508-4(CKB)2550000001108143(EBL)3339647(SSID)ssj0000950707(PQKBManifestationID)11607238(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950707(PQKBWorkID)10881622(PQKB)10180598(StDuBDS)EDZ0000174612(MiAaPQ)EBC3339647(OCoLC)855019799(MdBmJHUP)muse29025(Au-PeEL)EBL3339647(CaPaEBR)ebr10739990(CaONFJC)MIL508575(EXLCZ)99255000000110814320130304d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe ringtone dialectic[electronic resource] economy and cultural form /Sumanth GopinathCambridge, Mass. MIT Press20131 online resource (393 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-262-01915-9 1-299-77324-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Ringtone8 Personalization and Spectatorship9 What's in a Name? Race and the Ringtone's Revival in (Un-)Popular Music; Epilogue; Notes; IndexA 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.Ring tonesSocial aspectsCell phonesSocial aspectsCell phone services industryMobile games industryInternet entertainment industryDigital mediaSocial aspectsElectronic books.Ring tonesSocial aspects.Cell phonesSocial aspects.Cell phone services industry.Mobile games industry.Internet entertainment industry.Digital mediaSocial aspects.384.5/35Gopinath Sumanth S1054824MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452536203321The ringtone dialectic2487751UNINA