Overview

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor completely relative, but emerge from an intensely collective process of construction. Applied to the study of music, this approach enables us to reconcile the human, social, factual, and technological aspects of the musical world, and opens the prospect of new areas of inquiry in musicology and sound studies. Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies draws together a wide range of both leading and emerging scholars to offer a critical survey of STS applications to music studies, considering topics ranging from classical music instrument-making to the ethos of DIY in punk music. The book’s four sections focus on key areas of music study that are impacted by STS: organology, sound studies, music history, and epistemology. Raising crucial methodological and epistemological questions about the study of music, this book will be relevant to scholars studying the interactions between music, culture, and technology from many disciplinary perspectives.

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Author:   Antoine Hennion (MINES-ParisTech, France) ,  Christophe Levaux (Universite de Liege, Belgium)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780367767723

ISBN 10:   0367767724
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Howard S. Becker Introduction Antoine Hennion and Christophe Levaux I. Histories1. Rameau and Harmony: Can Theory Make Reason of Music? Antoine Hennion 2. Sounding Standards: A History Concert Pitch, between Musicology and STS Fanny Gribenski 3. Is DIY a Punk Invention?: Learning processes, Recording Devices, and Social Knowledge François Ribac 4. Secure and Insecure Bases in the Performance of Western Classical Music Daniel Leech-Wilkinson 5. Deep Structure: The Generative Subject in Actor-Network Theory and Musicology Patrick Valiquet II. Instruments 6. Sonic Imaginaries: How Hugh Davies and David Van Koevering Performed Electronic Music’s Future James Mooney and Trevor Pinch7. Following the Instruments: The Designers and Users of the Fairlight CMI Paul Harkins 8. The Interface and Instrumentality of Eurorack Modular Synthesis Eliot BatesIII. Technologies 9. Human Sounds and the Obscenity of Information David Trippett10. STS Confronts the Vocaloid: Assemblage Thinking with Hatsune Miku Nick Prior 11. Similarity and Difference in Sound Studies (and elsewhere) Basile Zimmermann IV. Practices 12. Smartphones, Streaming Platforms, and the Infrastructuring of Digital Music Practices Paolo Magaudda 13. Tracing the Music Actor-Network: Losing the Meaning of Musical Experience? The Limits of a Routinization of Science and Technology Studies Applied to Techniques and Knowledges of Music François Debruyne 14. Musicalized Images: Composing, Playing, Remixing, and Performing Net Art Jean-Paul Fourmentraux

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Antoine Hennion is Professor at Mines ParisTech, and the former Director of the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation. He has written extensively on the sociology of music, media, and cultural industries. Christophe Levaux is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège, Belgium. His research focuses on approaches to 20th-century American music and Actor-Network Theory.

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