Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity

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Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity focuses on the new and emerging synergies of music and digital technology within the new knowledge economies. Eighteen scholars representing six international perspectives explore the global and local ramifications of rapidly changing new technologies on creative industries, local communities, music practitioners and consumers. Diverse areas are considered, such as production, consumption, historical and cultural context, legislation, globalization and the impact upon the individual. Drawing on a range of musical genres from jazz, heavy metal, hip-hop and trance, and through several detailed case studies reflecting on the work of professional and local amateur artists, this book offers an important discussion of the ways in which the face of music is changing. Approaching these areas from a cultural studies perspective, this text will be a valuable tool for anyone engaged in the study of popular culture, music or digital technologies. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1 SHIFTING CONTEXTS Introduction to Part 1 1 Music, Cities, and Cultural and Creative Industries Policy 2 Futures for Webcasting: Regulatory Approaches in Australia and the US 3 Postmusics 4 On the Fetish Character of Sound and the Progression of Technology: Theorizing Japanese Audiophiles 5 The Elvis Spectacle and the Culture Industry PART 2 PLACING MUSIC Introduction to Part 2 6 Popular Music, Media and the Narrativization of Place 7 There’s No There There 8 Ethnic and Social Differences in Music Behaviour in a Fragmented Berlin 9 ‘Dis is England’s new voice’: Anger, Activism & the Asian Dub Foundation 10 From Folk Devils to Folk Music: Tracing the Malay Heavy Metal Scene in Singapore 11 The Jamaican Dancehall Sound System as a Commercial and Social Apparatus PART 3 CREATING AGENCY Introduction to Part 3 12 Use, Misuse and Abuse: Problems Surrounding Popular Music and its Young Performers 13 The Idol Audience: Judging, Interactivity and Entertainment 14 Risky Economies: Community-Based Organizations and the Music-Making Practices of Marginalized Youth 15 ‘Unalienated Labour’ and Creative Industries: Situating Micro-Entrepreneurial Dance Music Subcultures in the New Economy 16 Up the Down Staircase: Grassroots Entrepreneurship in Young People’s Music Practices Bibliography Index