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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. This casual engagement with music often blinds us to the complex infrastructures that make our musical cultures possible.Audible Infrastructures takes readers to the sawmills, mineshafts, power grids, telecommunication 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, and failure and waste--this book provides the first 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 ultimately also pondering our responsibilities as musicians and listeners, this book calls for nothing less than a reorientation of our musical cultures.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Audible Infrastructures: Music, Sound, Media. To get started finding Audible Infrastructures: Music, Sound, Media, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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. This casual engagement with music often blinds us to the complex infrastructures that make our musical cultures possible.Audible Infrastructures takes readers to the sawmills, mineshafts, power grids, telecommunication 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, and failure and waste--this book provides the first 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 ultimately also pondering our responsibilities as musicians and listeners, this book calls for nothing less than a reorientation of our musical cultures.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Audible Infrastructures: Music, Sound, Media. To get started finding Audible Infrastructures: Music, Sound, Media, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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