Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors

Chapter 1: The Production of Music and Sound: A Multidisciplinary Critique
Eliot Bates and Samantha Bennett

Section 1: Situating Production: Place, Space and Gender

Chapter 2: Field Recording and the Production of Place
Tom Western (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

Chapter 3: The Poietics of Space: The Role and Co-performance of the Spatial Environment in Popular Music Production
Damon Minchella (University of Birmingham, England)

Chapter 4: "An Indestructible Sound": Locating Gender in Genres Using Different Music Production Approaches
Paula Wolfe (Sib Records, England)

Section 2: Beyond Representation

Chapter 5: Producing TV Series Music in Istanbul
Eliot Bates (City University of New York, USA)

Chapter 6: Reclamation and Celebration: Kodangu, a Torres Strait Islander Album of Ancestral and Contemporary Australian Indigenous Music
Karl Neuenfeldt (Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Australia)

Section 3: Electronic Music

Chapter 7: "All Sounds Are Created Equal": Mediating Democracy in Acousmatic Education
Patrick Valiquet (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Chapter 8: Technologies of Play in Hip-Hop and Electronic Dance Music Production and Performance
Mike D'Errico (UCLA, USA)

Section 4: Technology and Technique

Chapter 9: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Invention and Re-invention of Recording Studio Mythology
Alan Williams (UMASS, Lowell, USA)

Chapter 10: Auto-Tune In Situ: Digital Vocal Correction And Conversational Repair
Owen Marshall (Cornell University, USA)

Section 5: Mediating Sound and Silence

Chapter 11: Listening To or Through Technology: Opaque and Transparent Mediation
Ragnhild Brovig-Hanssen (University of Oslo, Norway)

Chapter 12: Six Types of Silence
Richard Osborne (Middlesex University, England)

Section 6: Virtuality and Online Production

Chapter 13: Intermixtuality: Case Studies in Online Music [Re]Production
Samantha Bennett (Australian National University, Australia)

Chapter 14: Crowdfunding and Alternative Modes of Production
Mark Thorley (Coventry University, England)

Index