
Music, Sound and Multimedia
From the Live to the Virtual
Jamie Sexton(Editor)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 14. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7486-2534-5 (ISBN)
Description
This new series aims to explore the area of "screen music". Volume topics will include multimedia music, music and television, Hollywood film music, and the music of Bollywood cinema.Music and other sound effects have been central to a whole host of media forms throughout the twentieth century, either as background, accompaniment, or main driving force. Such interactions will continue to mutate in new directions, with the widespread growth of digital technologies. Despite the expansion of research into the use of music and sound in film, the investigation of sonic interactions with other media forms has been a largely under-researched area. Music, Sound and Multimedia provides a unique study of how music and other sounds play a central part in our understandings and uses of a variety of communications media. It focuses on four areas of sound and music within broader multimedia forms - music videos, video game music, performance and presentation, and production and consumption - and addresses the centrality of such aural concerns within our everyday experiences. Charting historical developments, mapping contemporary patterns, and speculating on future possibilities, this book is essential for courses on sound and media within media and communications studies, cultural studies and popular music studies.Key features* Charts a number of key developments in music and multimedia interactions* Provides both historical overviews and theoretical analyses* Features a number of in-depth case studies of important issues.
Reviews / Votes
This is a valuable book about important topics, written by fresh voices on the academic music scene. It is well worth the investment of money and time for the general reading public, and merits adoption as a primary resource for the growing ranks of university courses about music in the digital age! this collection of essays sets a high standard among similar edited volumes, by virtue of the diversity and timeliness of its topics in digital media, its strong basis in recent secondary literature, and the appropriateness of the specific examples for each of the medial practices. -- James Deaville Music, Sound and the Moving Image This excellent volume will be useful to those in ethnomusicology and popular music studies who have been contemplating the new musical environments of digital media and broadband internet in recent years! There is a great deal here to both provoke and inspire ethnomusicologists working on, or with, new media. -- Martin Stokes, St. John's College, Oxford Ethnomusicology Forum This is a valuable book about important topics, written by fresh voices on the academic music scene. It is well worth the investment of money and time for the general reading public, and merits adoption as a primary resource for the growing ranks of university courses about music in the digital age! this collection of essays sets a high standard among similar edited volumes, by virtue of the diversity and timeliness of its topics in digital media, its strong basis in recent secondary literature, and the appropriateness of the specific examples for each of the medial practices. This excellent volume will be useful to those in ethnomusicology and popular music studies who have been contemplating the new musical environments of digital media and broadband internet in recent years! There is a great deal here to both provoke and inspire ethnomusicologists working on, or with, new media.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
6 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
394 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-2534-5 (9780748625345)
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Person
Jamie Sexton is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including British Musical Hauntology (forthcoming, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema (co-edited with Ernest Mathijs, 2019), Stranger Than Paradise (2017) and Cult Cinema: An Introduction (co-authored with Ernest Mathijs, 2011).
Content
Introduction; PART I: Music Videos; 1. Anime Music Videos (Dana Milstein); 2. Fan Videos (Angelina I. Karpovich); PART II: Video Game Music; 3. Immersion and music in Videogames (Rod Munday); 4. Case Study: Silent Hill - Sound in Film vs Video Games (Zach Wallen); PART III: Performance and Presentation; 5. Sound and Music exhibitions/installations (Jamie Sexton); 6. Pop Music, multimedia and live performance (Jem Kelly); 7. Electroacoustic Music and Performance (Randolph Jordan); PART IV: Production and Consumption; 8. Sound and Web Site Design (Lee Tsang); 9. Music media in young people's everyday lives (Dan Laughey); 10. Case Study: the Apple iPod (Kieran Kelly).