Absolute music, mechanical reproduction [[electronic resource] /] / Arved Ashby

• Autore: Ashby Arved Mark
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 pages)
• Disciplina: 781.49
• Soggetto topico: Absolute music; Sound recordings - Social aspects; Music - Philosophy and aesthetics; Performance practice (Music) - History - 20th century; Music and technology; Sound - Recording and reproducing - Digital techniques; MP3 (Audio coding standard) - Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: absolute instrumental music; aesthetics; art music; classical music; contemporary world; historical; listening to music; live arts; mechanical reproduction; music criticism; music critics; music historians; music history; music recordings; music scholars; music; musical contexts; musical culture; musicology; nonfiction; performing arts; recording technology; recordings and sound; socially progressive; students and teachers
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.299-308) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The recorded musical text -- Recording, repetition, and memory in absolute music -- Schnabel's rationalism, Gould's pragmatism -- Digital mythologies -- Beethoven and the iPod Nation -- Photo/phono/porno -- Mahler as imagist.
• Sommario/riassunto: Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "absolute" instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive and instruments of a musical vernacular, but also finds that recording and absolute music actually involve similar notions of removing sound from context. He takes stock of technology's impact on classical music, addressing the questions at the heart of the issue. This erudite yet concise study reveals how mechanical reproduction has transformed classical musical culture and the very act of listening, breaking down aesthetic and generational barriers and mixing classical music into the soundtrack of everyday life.
• Titolo autorizzato: Absolute music, mechanical reproduction
• ISBN: 9786612697661; 0-520-94569-7; 1-282-69766-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781129403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II