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Author: Michael D. Ayers
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition: New edition
Volume: 31
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.410kg
ISBN: 9780820478616
ISBN 10: 082047861
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 27 February 2006
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
« 'Cybersounds' is terrific. It takes readers inside the many sorts of cyberscenes now being developed by inventive people creatively using the Internet to build community among music makers and fans. We see the emergence of new means of controlling entry, norms of communication, identity formation, politics, and ethics in these worlds where flesh and machine begin to merge. These emergent scenes are set in the context of the technologies, laws, and business models that make them possible and shape/stunt their growth, and we learn of the musical creativity lost as well as the creativity gained in the process. -- Richard A. Peterson
The writers offer an illuminating cybersurfing safari out to the point break where art, commerce, community, self, and politics converge. The result is a smooth ride to a fresh new shoreline of twenty-first century cultural criticism. The essays are comprehensive, well crafted, theoretically informed, empirically grounded, loud, clear, alive, and kicking. (Donna Gaines, sociologist/journalist; Author of 'Teenage Wasteland' and 'A Misfits Manifesto') 'Cybersounds' is terrific. It takes readers inside the many sorts of cyberscenes now being developed by inventive people creatively using the Internet to build community among music makers and fans. We see the emergence of new means of controlling entry, norms of communication, identity formation, politics, and ethics in these worlds where flesh and machine begin to merge. These emergent scenes are set in the context of the technologies, laws, and business models that make them possible and shape/stunt their growth, and we learn of the musical creativity lost as well as the creativity gained in the process. (Richard A. Peterson, Co-Editor with Andy Bennett of 'Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and Virtual')
Author Information
The Editor: Michael D. Ayers is a Visiting Professor at Manhattan College and holds degrees in sociology from Virginia Tech and the New School for Social Research (New York). He is the co-editor of Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice (2003) and a contributing music critic to Billboard.com, Giant and the Village Voice.
