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Why vinyl matters
\"Vinyl, once thought to be a dying market, is now facing a major revival. Pop culture writer and historian Jennifer Otter Bickerdike interviews some of our most iconic artists, including hip-hop stars, Indie legends, DJs, producers, album cover designers, photographers, label founders and record store owners. Each superstar and superfan talks about their own experiences of vinyl and what it means to them ... Includes interviews with Fat Boy Slim, Tim Burgess (Charlatans), Henry Rollins (musician, actor, writer, comedian), Gaz Coombes (Supergrass), Lars Ulrich (Metallica), Maxi Jazz (Faithless), Rob da Bank (DJ and founder of Bestival), [and others]\"--Publisher's description.
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production provides a detailed overview of current research on the production of mono and stereo recorded music. The handbook consists of 33 chapters, each written by leaders in the field of music production. Examining the technologies and places of music production as well the broad range of practices – organization, recording, desktop production, post-production and distribution – this edited collection looks at production as it has developed around the world. In addition, rather than isolating issues such as gender, race and sexuality in separate chapters, these points are threaded throughout the entire text.
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Chasing sound : technology, culture, and the art of studio recording from Edison to the LP
How technically enhanced studio recordings revolutionized music and the music industry.
In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the cultural and technological evolution of recording studios in the United States from the first practical devices to the modern multi-track studios of the analog era. Charting the technical development of studio equipment, the professionalization of recording engineers, and the growing collaboration between artists and technicians, she shows how the earliest efforts to capture the sound of live performances eventually resulted in a trend toward studio creations that extended beyond live shows, ultimately reversing the historic relationship between live and recorded sound.
Schmidt Horning draws from a wealth of original oral interviews with major labels and independent recording engineers, producers, arrangers, and musicians, as well as memoirs, technical journals, popular accounts, and sound recordings. Recording engineers and producers, she finds, influenced technological and musical change as they sought to improve the sound of records. By investigating the complex relationship between sound engineering and popular music, she reveals the increasing reliance on technological intervention in the creation as well as in the reception of music. The recording studio, she argues, is at the center of musical culture in the twentieth century.
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The history of music production
The History of Music Production offers an authoritative, concise, and accessible overview of nearly 140 years of production of recorded music. It describes what role the music producer has played in shaping the creation, perception, propagation, business, and use of music, and discusses the future of the music production industry.
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The art of the LP : classic album covers 1955-1995
Presents record album covers from the United States and Britain, chiefly for rock music, but including jazz, rhythm and blues, country, folk, pop, and other types, arranged thematically, and comments on their origins, style, and meaning.
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Writing the field recording : sound, word, environment
A field recording is any audio recording made outside of the studio. Such recordings have lately become important to contemporary musicians, sound artists and environmentalists. Less attention, however, has been given to the relation of sound, as manifested in the theory and practice of the field recording, to writing. The eleven essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recording as the point of departure for an investigation of the sounded field in music and its relationship to literature, writing and sound studies. This book includes seminal pieces on field thinking by John Berger and Lisa Robertson, alongside the work of composers, musicians, poets and critics. As well as critical reflections on artistic practice, the collection presents an inter-disciplinary exploration of the various registers in which the field recording is written, including the essayistic, the creative, the experimental and the philosophical.
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