The relentless pursuit of tone timbre in popular music / edited by Robert Fink, Melinda Latour, Zachary Wallmark.

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Publication InfoNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Descriptionxvii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Other author/creatorFink, Robert Wallace, 1961-
Other author/creatorLatour, Melinda, 1980-
Other author/creatorWallmark, Zachary, 1981-
Other author/creatorOxford 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2018000971
ISBN9780199985227 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780199985234 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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