1st Edition
Liveness in Modern Music Musicians, Technology, and the Perception of Performance
By Paul Sanden
Copyright 2013
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music, where liveness is typically understood to represent performance and to stand in opposition to recording, amplification, and other methods of... Read more
1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Liveness in Mediatized Music 3. Hearing Glenn Gould’s Body: Corporeal Liveness in Recorded Music 4. Reconsidering Fidelity: Authenticity, Historicism, and Liveness in the Music of The White Stripes 5. Interactive Liveness in Live Electronic Music 6. Virtual Liveness and Sounding Cyborgs: John Oswald’s "Vane" 7. Performing Cyborgs: The Flaying of Marsyas and Turntablism 8. Conclusion Notes References Index
Biography
Paul Sanden teaches Music History at the University of Lethbridge, Canada.
