{"product_id":"relentless-pursuit-of-tone-timbre-in-popular-music-paperback","title":"Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Fink\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMelinda LaTour\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eZachary Wallmark\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music\u003c\/em\u003e assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how \"sound\" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings to the crunch of amplified guitars and the thump of subwoofers on the dance floor, this volume bridges the gap between \u003cem\u003etimbre\u003c\/em\u003e, our name for the purely acoustic characteristics of sound waves, and \u003cem\u003etone\u003c\/em\u003e, an emergent musical construct that straddles the borderline between the perceptual and the political. Essays engage with the entire history of popular music as recorded sound, from the 1930s to the present day, under four large categories. \"Genre\" asks how sonic signatures define musical identities and publics; \"Voice\" considers the most naturalized musical instrument, the human voice, as racial and gendered signifier, as property or likeness, and as raw material for algorithmic perfection through software; \"Instrument\" tells\u003cbr\u003estories of the way some iconic pop music machines-guitars, strings, synthesizers-got (or lost) their distinctive sounds; \"Production\" then puts it all together, asking structural questions about what happens in a recording studio, what is produced (sonic cartoons? rockist authenticity? empty space?) and what it all might mean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Fink is Professor of Musicology at UCLA and a past President of IASPM-US. He focuses on music after 1965, with special interests in minimalism, popular music, and the intersection of cultural and music-analytical theory. He has published widely in musicological journals, and is the author of \u003cem\u003eRepeating Ourselves \u003c\/em\u003e(2005), a book-length study of the minimal music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and others as a cultural reflection of American consumer society in the mass-media age. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMelinda Latour is Rumsey Family Assistant Professor of Musicology at Tufts University. She has received numerous awards, including the Mellon\/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and the Newberry Library École nationale des chartes Exchange Fellowship. Her work appears in the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Musicology \u003c\/em\u003e(2015), the \u003cem\u003eRevue de musicologie\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and the \u003cem\u003eCambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZachary Wallmark is Assistant Professor of Musicology at SMU Meadows School of the Arts. His research explores the contribution of timbre to affective response, aesthetic judgment, and empathy in popular music and jazz, using methods from musicology and the cognitive sciences. \u003cbr\u003eHe is currently at work on a monograph tentatively titled \u003cem\u003eNothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford). Wallmark is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship (2017-18).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45602322710572,"sku":"9780199985234","price":88.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/relentless-pursuit-of-tone-timbre-in-popular-music-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}