The Cambridge companion to recorded music

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Featuring fascinating accounts from practitioners including performers and producers, this companion examines how developments in recording have transformed musical culture. Introduction -- Learning to live with recording / Susan Tomes -- A short take in praise of long takes / Peter Hill -- 1. Peforming for (and against) the microphone / Donald Greig -- Producing a credible vocal / Mike Howlett -- "It could have happened": the evolution of music construction / Steve Savage -- 2. Recording practices and the role of the producer / Andrew Blake -- Still small voices / Jonathan Freeman-Atwood -- Broadening horizons: "performance" in the studio / Michael Hass -- 3. Getting sounds: the art of sound engineering / Albin Zak -- Limitations and creativity in recording and performance / Martyn Ware -- Recods and recordings in post-punk England, 1978-1980 / Richard Witts -- 4. The polictics of the recording studio: a case study from South Africa / Louise Meintjes -- From Lanza to Lassus / Tully Potter -- 5. From wind-up to iPod: techno-cultures of listening / Arild Bergh and Tia DeNora -- A matter of circumstance: on experiencing recordings / Martin Elste -- 6. Selling sounds: recordings and the record business / David Patmore -- Revisiting concert life in the mid-century: the survival of acetate discs / Lewis Foreman -- 7. The development of recording technologies / George Brock-Nannestad -- Raiders of the lost archive / Roger Beardsley -- The original cast of West Side Story / Nigel Simeone -- 8. The recorded document: interpretation and discography / Simon Trezise -- One man's approach to remastering / Ted Kendall -- Technology, the stuio, music / Nick Mason -- Reminder: a recording is not a performance / Roger Heaton -- 9. Methods for analysing recordings / Nicholas Cook -- 10. Recordings and histories of performance style / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson -- Recreating history: a clarinettist's retrospective / Colin Lawson -- 11. Going critical: writing about recordings / Simon Frith -- Something in the air / Chris Watson -- Afterword: recording: from reproduction to representation to remediation / Georgiana Born.