Audible Infrastructures
Series: Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 March 2021
- ISBN 9780190932640
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 155x231x17 mm
- Weight 458 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 96
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Short description:
Audible Infrastructures reveals the material, environmental, and economic conditions that underlie the production and consumption of music. In showing how central natural resources, power grids, and transportation are to music, this book boldly reshapes how we understand musical cultures and their place in society.
MoreLong description:
Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic. Songs instantly emanate from our computers and phones, at any time of day. The tools for playing and making music, such as records and guitars, wait for us in stores, ready for purchase and use. And when we no longer need them, we can leave them at the curb, where they disappear effortlessly and without a trace. These casual engagements often conceal the complex infrastructures that make our musical cultures possible.
Audible Infrastructures takes readers to the sawmills, mineshafts, power grids, telecoms networks, transport systems, and junk piles that seem peripheral to musical culture and shows that they are actually pivotal to what music is, how it works, and why it matters. Organized into three parts dedicated to the main phases in the social life and death of musical commodities ? resources and production, circulation and transmission, failure and waste ? this book provides a concerted archaeology of music's media infrastructures. As contributors reveal the material-environmental realities and political-economic conditions of music and listening, they open our eyes to the hidden dimensions of how music is made, delivered, and disposed of. In rethinking our responsibilities as musicians and listeners, this book calls for nothing less than a reconsideration of how music comes to sound.
A collection of insightful essays on the media infrastructures of sound and music ... This is a major contribution to the existing infrastructural scholarship.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Section I: Introductions and Orientations
Chapter 1: Making Infrastructures Audible: An Introduction
Kyle Devine and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Chapter 2: Rivers, Gatherings, and Infrastructures
Will Straw
Chapter 3: Making Music, Building Roads: A Reflection on Sound, Materiality, and Social Transformation
Penny Harvey
Section II: Resources and Production
Chapter 4: Glittery: Unearthed Histories of Music, Mica, and Work
Alejandra Bronfman
Chapter 5: Timber to Timbre: Fiji Mahogany Plantations and Gibson Guitars
José E. Martínez-Reyes
Chapter 6: The Infrastructure and Environmental Consequences of Live Music
Matt Brennan
Section III: Circulation and Transmission
Chapter 7: Street Net and Electronic Music in Cuba
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Chapter 8: Sonopolis: Activist Infrastructures and Sonic Citizenship in Athens
Tom Western
Chapter 9: Shadows of Black and White: Materialities and Medialities in May Irwin's "Frog Song"
Leslie C. Gay, Jr.
Section IV: Failure and Waste
Chapter 10: Another Side of Shellac: Cultural and Natural Cycles of the Gramophone Disc
Elodie A. Roy
Chapter 11: The Sounds of Zombie Media: Waste and the Sustainable Afterlives of Repurposed Technologies
Lauren Flood
Chapter 12: Electronic Music and the Problem of Electricity
Gavin Steingo
Index
