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1st Edition

Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio

By Allan Watson Copyright 2015

232 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

250 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

232 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

Recording studios are the most insulated, intimate and privileged sites of music production and creativity. Yet in a world of intensified globalisation, they are also sites which are highly connected into wider networks of music production that are increasingly spanning the globe. This book is the first comprehensive account of the new spatialities of cultural production in the recording studio... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I Inside the Studio

1 Studio Technologies: Changing Concepts and Practices

2 Technology, Collaboration and Creativity

3 Emotional Labour and Musical Performance

4 The Studio Sound-Space

PART II Beyond the Studio

5 Recording Studios in Urban Music Scenes

6 Recording Studios in Project Networks (1): The Networked Studio

7 Recording Studios in Project Networks (2): A Global Urban Geography of Music Production

8 MP3s and Home Recording: The Problems of Software

PART III Working and Networking in the Recording Studio Sector

9 Changing Employment Relations and Experiences of Work

10 Networking, Reputation Building and Getting Work

Conclusion

Author(s)

Biography

Allan Watson is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Staffordshire University.

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