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03173aam a22003978i 4500 001 D7013FAAAE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230217010059 008 220208t20222022nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022006327 020 $a 0199946981 020 $a 9780199946983 035 $a (OCoLC)1263865564 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TOH $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a ML3916 $b .K38 2022 100 1 $a Katz, Mark, $d 1970- $e author. 245 10 $a Music and technology : $b a very short introduction / $c Mark Katz. 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xx, 135 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 18 cm. 490 1 $a Very short introductions 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Music as Technology -- Bodies and Senses -- Time -- Space -- Community -- Noise -- Five Theses about Music and Technology. 520 $a "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. This volume 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. 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"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Music and technology. 650 0 $a Music $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Sound recordings $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Musical instruments. 650 7 $a Music and technology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030490 650 7 $a Music $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030444 650 7 $a Musical instruments. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030728 650 7 $a Sound recordings $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127060 830 0 $a Very short introductions. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012254.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D7013FAAAE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search