The ringtone dialectic [[electronic resource] ] : economy and cultural form / / Sumanth Gopinath

• Autore: Gopinath Sumanth S
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 384.5/35
• Soggetto topico: Ring tones - Social aspects; Cell phones - Social aspects; Cell phone services industry; Mobile games industry; Internet entertainment industry; Digital media - Social aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The ringtone dialectic
• ISBN: 0-262-31509-2; 0-262-31508-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779983203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II