Description
A survey of key areas related to digital music and the internet with a focus on how technology impacts the relationship between music and its listeners
About the Author
Shara Rambarran is Assistant Professor of Music at Bader International Study Centre, UK (Queen's University, Canada). Her research interests include musicology, remixology, digital technology, music industry, education, and law. She co-runs the Art of Record Production conferences, and is an editor on the Journal on the Art of Record Production and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality (2016).
Reviews
Shara Rambarran has been developing an insightful criticism and analysis of digital music over many years, and it is exciting to read this collection of her ideas and arguments. She investigates the meaning of digital virtual music, its manifestation in remixes, video games and experimental transformations of material, and discusses its effect on artistic identity, creators and fans. This book is warmly recommended as a stimulating account of the ways in which music has been shaped by virtuality and digital technology. * Derek B. Scott, Professor of Critical Musicology, University of Leeds, UK, and editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology *
In a concise, accessible, and yet critical and interdisciplinary approach, Shara Rambarran offers an essential inquiry into the historical, theoretical, technological, cultural, aesthetical and ethical aspects of music in the virtual age. This book is essential to anyone interested in the relationships between music, technology and other media. * Serge Lacasse, Professor, Universite Laval, Canada *
That wild, divisive moment-when folk and jazz 'went electric'-finds a worthy remix (and one equally explosive, equally epochal) in this vital study. Here, and traced deftly by Rambarran from its prehistories to its global present, music 'went virtual,' upending old paradigms of art, authenticity and authorship. Virtual Music surveys, brilliantly, how tomorrow comes today. * Benjamin Halligan, Director of the Doctoral College, University of Wolverhampton, UK *
Book Information
ISBN 9781501336379
Author Dr. Shara Rambarran
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 358g