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The relentless pursuit of tone : timbre in popular music
- Title
- The relentless pursuit of tone : timbre in popular music / edited by Robert Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher website with accompanying audio, video, and score files
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvii, 386 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JME 19-67
- ISBN
- 9780199985227
- 0199985227
- 9780199985234
- 0199985235
- LCCN
- 2018000971
- OCLC
- 1019841331
- Title
- The relentless pursuit of tone : timbre in popular music / edited by Robert Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Fink, Robert Wallace, 1961- editor.Latour, Melinda, 1980- editor.Wallmark, Zachary, 1981- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JME 19-67