The relentless pursuit of tone timbre in popular music / edited by Robert Fink, Melinda Latour, Zachary Wallmark.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] |
| Description | xvii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Fink, Robert Wallace, 1961- |
| Other author/creator | Latour, Melinda, 1980- |
| Other author/creator | Wallmark, Zachary, 1981- |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Contents | Introduction. Chasing the dragon : in search of tone in popular music / Robert Fink, Zachary Wallmark, and Melinda Latour -- -- Genre. Hearing timbre : perceptual learning among early Bay Area ravers / Cornelia Fales ; The twang factor in country music / Jocelyn R. Neal ; The sound of evil : timbre, body, and sacred violence in death metal / Zachary Wallmark ; Below 100 Hz : toward a musicology of subbass / Robert Fink -- Voice. Timbre and legal likeness : the case of Tom Waits / Mark C. Samples ; The triumph of Jimmy Scott : a voice beyond category / Nina Sun Eidsheim ; Auto-Tune, labor, and the pop music voice / Catherine Provenzano -- Instrument. Hearing luxe pop : Jay Z, Isaac Hayes, and the six degrees of symphonic soul / John Howland ; Santana and the metaphysics of tone : feedback loops, volume knobs and the quest for transcendence / Melinda Latour ; Synthesizers as social protest in early 1970s funk / Griffin Woodworth ; Crossing the electronic divide: guitars, synthesizers, and the shifting sound field of fusion / Steve Waksman -- Production. Clash of the timbres : recording authenticity in the California rock scene, 1966-68 / Jan Butler ; The death rattle of a laughing hyena : the sound of musical democracy / Albin J. Zak III ; The sound of nowhere : reverb and the construction of sonic space / Paul Théberge ; The spectromorphology of recorded popular music : the shaping of sonic cartoons through record production / Simon Zagorski-Thomas -- Afterword / Simon Frith. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018000971 |
| ISBN | 9780199985227 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780199985234 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |