
Portable Music and its Functions
Andrew Williams(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. October 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-0-8204-8125-8 (ISBN)
Description
Using iPods or portable CD players, millions of people take their music with them every day to modify their daily experiences. Encased in headphones, they listen to music for entertainment, but also use it, among other things, as a buffer between themselves and the world outside, and to manage their moods. What is it about music that makes it useful in different ways to so many people? Have people always used music in these ways, or only since the technology of the Walkman and then the mp3 player made music portable?
In this wide-ranging exploration of how and why we use portable music, Andrew Williams sheds new light on the role music plays in our everyday lives. Portable Music and Its Functions will be of use to students and scholars of sociology and cultural studies as well as of musicology.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
221 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-8125-8 (9780820481258)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Author: Andrew Williams is Adjunct Associate Lecturer in the Elder School of Music at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Portable Music and Its Functions results from his continuing interest in mobile musical experience, which began with his Ph.D. research in ethnomusicology.