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Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction [#710]
Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction [#710]

Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction [#710]

Author: 
Mark Katz
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  • Presents case studies of music technologies from around the world, including Brazil, China, Cuba, India, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, and Zimbabwe
  • Considers the roles race, gender, and power inequalities shape the way that technology is used in music making
  • Covers a broad range of repertoires, styles, and eras, including European classical music, hip hop, folk music, and film music, from the prehistoric era to today
     
Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devices.
   
This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, “music technology” tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like. This volume, however, treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music—new or old, electronic or not—as technologies worthy of investigation. All musical instruments can be considered technologies. The modern piano, for example, is a marvel of keys, hammers, strings, pedals, dampers, and jacks; just the sound-producing mechanism, or action, on a piano has more than 50 different parts.
    
In this broad view, technology in music encompasses instruments, whether acoustic, electric or electronic; engraving and printing; sound recording and playback; broadcasting; software; and much more. Mark Katz challenges the view that technology is unnatural, something external to music. It was sometimes said in the early twentieth century that so-called mechanical music (especially player pianos and phonographs) was a menace to “real” music; alternatively, technology can be freighted with utopian hopes and desires, as happens today with music streaming platforms like Spotify. Positive or negative, these views assume that technology is something that acts upon music; by contrast, this volume characterizes technology as an integral part of all musical activity and portrays traditional instruments and electronic machines as equally technological.
Index: 

1. Music as Technology
2. The Body
3. Time
4. Space
5. Community
6. Noise
7. Five Theses about Music and Technology
References
Further Reading
Index

About the author: 
Mark Katz is John P. Barker Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Founding Director of the hip-hop cultural diplomacy program, Next Level. His books include Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (2010), Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ (2012), and Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World (2019).

Product details

ISBN : 9780199946983

Author: 
Mark Katz
Pages
160 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Oct 2022
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction [#710]

Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction [#710]

Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction [#710]