• Preface vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction / Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien
• 1 I. Theories and Genealogies
• 1. Ethnodigital Sonics and the Historical Imagination / Richard Cullen Rath
• 29
• 2. Performing Zora: Critical Ethnography, Digital Sound, and Not Forgetting / Myron M. Beasley
• 47
• 3. Rhetorical Folkness: Reanimating Walter J. Ong in the Pursuit of Digital Humanity / Jonathan W. Stone
• 64 II. Digital Communities
• 4. The Pleasure (Is) Principle: Sounding Out! and the Digitizing of Community / Aaron Trammell, Jennifer Lynn Stover, and Liana Silva
• 83
• 5. Becoming OutKasted: Archiving Contemporary Black Southernness in a Digtal Age / Regina N. Bradley
• 120
• 6. Reprogramming Sounds of Learning: Pedagogical Experiments with Critical Making and Community-Based Ethnography / W. F. Umi Hsu
• 130 III. Disciplinary Translations
• 7. Word. Spoken. Articulating the Voice for High-Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS) / Tanya E. Clement
• 155
• 8. "A Foreign Sound to Your Ear": Digital Image Sonification for Historical Interpretation / Michael J. Kramer
• 178
• 9. Augmenting Musical Arguments: Interdisciplinary Publishing Platforms and Augmented Notes / Joanna Swafford
• 215 IV. Points Forward
• 10. Digital Approaches to Historical Acoustemologies: Replication and Reenactment / Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden
• 231
• 11. Sound Practices for Digital Humanities / Steph Ceraso
• 250 Afterword. Demands of Duration: The Futures of Digital Sound Scholarship / Jonathan Sterne, with Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien
• 267 Contributors
• 285 Index 291.
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The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume's contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences that are more inclusive of diverse knowledges and abilities. Drawing on multiple disciplines-including rhetoric and composition, performance studies, anthropology, history, and information science-the contributors to Digital Sound Studies bring digital humanities and sound studies into productive conversation while probing the assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academic life. In so doing, they explore how sonic experience might transform our scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive. As they demonstrate, incorporating sound into scholarship is thus not only feasible but urgently necessary. Contributors. Myron M. Beasley, Regina N. Bradley, Steph Ceraso, Tanya Clement, Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, W. F. Umi Hsu, Michael J. Kramer, Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, Richard Cullen Rath, Liana M. Silva, Jonathan Sterne, Jennifer Stoever, Jonathan W. Stone, Joanna Swafford, Aaron Trammell, Whitney Trettien.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780822370604 20181210

• Hey, where's my backstage pass...?
• How to use this book
• Pre-Queen
• The albums
• The songs A to Z
• Queen live
• Compilations and collaborations
• Other media : radio, video, interactive, stage film
• Post-Queen
• Singles discography
• Got to follow that dream.

Their fan base continues to grow, over 25 years on from the death of Freddie Mercury, Queen's flamboyant, unforgettable front man. Georg Purvis's meticulous, session-by-session, song-by-song, album-by-album, tour-by-tour record of the band's progress is the complete reference source that Queen fans have been waiting for. If you love the Champions of Rock, it's all here: *The Band - detailed insights into Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon including bands the members formed outside of Queen and solo endeavours *The Albums - detailed production history and analysis of every album, including solo releases *The Sessions - In depth coverage from the early days via A Night at The Opera all the way to Made in Heaven *The Songs - hundreds of individual entries on all the famous recordings, as well as obscure, unreleased rarities *The Tours - set-lists and histories of every Queen and Queen-related live show including Queen + Adam Lambert *The Videos - a complete guide to Queen's groundbreaking video work *The Movies - Flash Gordon, Highlander and 2018's Bohemian Rhapsody biopic *Plus - the reunion shows with Paul Rodgers, Adam Lambert, the radio sessions, the costumes, the parties and much, much more...
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781789090000 20190204

Everyone remembers their first NOW album. Since NOW That's What I Call Music Volume 1 was released in 1983 on double vinyl and double cassette, NOW has become synonymous with pop music and has featured some of the most iconic artists of the last three decades. To celebrate the release of the 100th NOW album, The Story of NOW That's What I Call Music in 100 Artists looks back at some of the most memorable - and occasionally regrettable - hits of the last 35 years! Jam packed with amazing facts and 'Well I never!' moments about the 4,000+ artists to have graced the NOW track listings - from Phil Collins to Pharrell, Bananarama to Lady Gaga and Peter Andre to Pet Shop Boys - The Story of NOW is a celebration of pop music through the decades. So plug in your earphones and pump up the volume, because this party is just getting started!.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781409179955 20190218

An in-depth and comprehensive guide to a and history of a music collecting EThe Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and MoreE traces the hobby from its beginnings over a century ago. The book features informative and entertaining sections on every significant format in which recorded music has been released a and some that are now almost completely forgotten.THBased on Dave Thompson's original Backbeat classic EThe Music Lover's Guide to Record CollectingE this revamped colorful expanded edition takes readers from the early days of cylinders 78s and Edison records on through 45s LPs 8-tracks cassettes bootlegs CDs MiniDiscs MP3s LPs and other formats.THLandmark labels collectable artists specialist themes and more are explored across a series of essays while dozens of color images bring the most obscure corners of the hobby to life. Unlike other volumes that focus exclusively on vinyl this book caters to the audiophile whose obsession for music welcomes all formats. Through it all the joy and fascination of music collecting in all its guises comes alive.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781617136863 20190218

Der Kunstraum Nestroyhof widmet sich in der Ausstellung dem Schnittpunkt zwischen Fotografie, bildender Kunst und Musik - dem Plattencover. Der Katalog '33 1/3 - Cover Art' erschien begleitend zur Ausstellung und blickt mit Begleittexten und Abbildungen aller gezeigten Plattencover auf die Geschichte der Plattenhülle zurück. Exhibition: Kunstraum Nestroyhof, Vienna, Austria (23.06.-09.11.2017).

• The first time America heard herself
• I'll get a break someday: Will Shade and the Memphis Jug Band
• In the shadow of Clinch Mountain: The Carter Family
• My heart keeps singing: Elder J.E. Burch
• Gonna die with my hammer in my hand: Dick Justice and the Williamson Brothers
• Down the dirt road: Charley Patton and the Mississippi Delta Blues
• Chant of the snake dance: The Hopi Indian Chanters
• Bird of paradise: Joseph Kekuku
• Mal hombre: Lydia Mednoza
• Allons à Lafayette: The Breaux Family
• Avalon blues: Mississippi John Hurt
• The American epic sessions
• Travel and the crew.

The companion book to the ground breaking BBC Arena documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music, blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today. Jack White, T. Bone Burnett, and Robert Redford have teamed up to executive produce American Epic, a historical music project exploring the pivotal recording journeys of the early twentieth century, which for the first time captured the breadth of American music and made it available to the world. It was, in a very real way, the first time America truly heard herself. In the 1920s and 1930s, as radio took over the pop music business, record companies were forced to leave their studios in major cities in search of new styles and markets. Ranging the mountains, prairies, rural villages, and urban ghettos of America, they discovered a wealth of unexpected talent-farmers, labourers, and ethnic minorities playing styles that blended the intertwining strands of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. These recordings form the bedrock for modern music as we know it, but during the Depression many record companies went out of business and more than ninety percent of the fragile 78 rpm discs were destroyed. Fortunately, thanks to the continuing efforts of cultural detectives and record devotees, the stories of America's earliest musicians can finally be told. Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, who directed and produced the documentary with American musician Duke Erikson, spent years traveling around the US in search of recollections of those musical pioneers. Their fascinating account, written with the assistance of prize-winning author Elijah Wald, continues the journey of the series and features additional stories, never-before-seen photographs, and unearthed artwork. It also contains contributions from many of the musicians who participated including Taj Mahal, Nas, Willie Nelson, and Steve Martin, plus a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible journey across America.American Epic is an extraordinary testament to our country's musical roots, the transformation of our culture, and the artists who gave us modern popular music.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781501135606 20170703

This spectacular volume is a compendium of beautiful recording and playback equipment and at the same time an engaging, comprehensive history of sound recording. Organized chronologically, it showcases specially commissioned photography of the beautiful, iconic and rarely seen objects contained within the diverse collections of the EMI Archive Trust. Recording equipment, playback devices, catalogues, artist files, records, master tapes, radios and televisions are all here, accompanied by detailed specifications and intriguing archival photographs. Interspersed with the timeline and images are in-depth articles that tell the complete stories of the pioneering advances in the evolution of sound technology, from the invention of the 'Gramophone' method to the development of electronic signal amplifiers, and from the arrival of magnetic tape recording to the advent of CDs and the dawn of the digital age. It is sure to prove irresistible to music geeks and design lovers alike.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780500519288 20171009

How record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury Americans who longed to be modern.The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, or Patti Page. It was just as likely to have had a selection of LPs from slightly different genres, with such titles as Cocktail Time, Music for a Chinese Dinner at Home, The Perfect Background Music for Your Home Movies, Honeymoon in Hawaii, Strings for a Space Age, or Cairo! The Music of Modern Egypt. The brilliantly hued, full-color cover art might show an ideal listener, an ideal living room, an ideal tourist in an exotic landscape -- or even an ideal space traveler. In Designed for Hi-Fi Living, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder listen to and look at these vinyl LPs, scouring the cover art and the liner notes, and find that these albums offered a guide for aspirational Americans who yearned to be modern in postwar consumer culture.Borgerson and Schroeder examine the representations of modern life in a selection of midcentury record albums, discussing nearly 150 vintage album covers, reproduced in color -- some featuring modern art or the work of famous designers and photographers. Offering a fascinating glimpse into the postwar imagination, the first part, "Home, " explores how the American home entered the frontlines of cold war debates and became an entertainment zone -- a place to play music, mix drinks, and impress guests with displays of good taste. The second part, "Away, " considers albums featuring music, pictures, and tourist information that prepared Americans for the jet age as well as the space race.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780262036238 20171030

• Buffha Scheidegger discography / contributor Erwin Elvers
• Jacky Milliet discography / contributor Erwin Elvers
• The Dixie Kids discography / contributor Fidi Weber.

Willy Mommer jun. (1921-1972), eminenter Vertreter der wohl bedeutendsten Eupener Musikerfamilie, erlangte als Dirigent, Komponist und Kulturmanager internationale Ausstrahlung. Doch hinter dem Künstler verbirgt sich auch eine der spannendsten Kriegsbiografien unserer Region. Als Funker beim deutschen militärischen Nachrichtendienst ("Abwehr") in Münster, Köln und Belzig bei Berlin konnte er sich durch seine pianistische Meisterschaft Zugang zum höchsten Machtzirkel des Militärs verschaffen und auf diese Weise den belgischen Widerstand und die britischen Nachrichtendienste mit kriegswichtigen Informationen versorgen. Marie-Claire Mommer und Christoph Brüll suchen in diesem Buch nach Spuren aus dem Leben Willy Mommers und verarbeiten sie zu einer literarischen und historischen Annäherung an eine Grenzen überschreitende Persönlichkeit und an einen leidenschaftlichen Europäer.

• Acknowledgements Preface Introduction
• Chapter 1: A Theory of Masterful Stories
• Chapter 2: Golden Age Radio Plays: Examining
• 120 Case Studies
• Chapter 3: Radio's Earliest Plays: Inventing the Medium's Storytelling Form in the 1920s and 1930s
• Chapter 4: Radio Hits its Dramatic Stride: The Early 1940s
• Chapter 5: Classics Continued Post WWII: From the Mid to Late 1940s
• Chapter 6: Post-WWII Radio Drama: Early to Mid 1950s
• Chapter 7: End of an Era: Exemplary Plays from the 1950s and Beyond
• Chapter 8: Concluding Reflections on Stories from Golden Age Radio.
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The early eras of radio storytelling have entered and continue to enter the public domain in large quantities, offering unprecedented access to the Golden Age of Radio. Author and Professor John Pavlik mines the best this age of radio has to offer in Masterful Stories, an examination of the masterpieces of audio storytelling. This book provides a chronological history of the best of the best from radio's Golden Age, outlining a core set of principles and techniques that made these radio plays enduring examples of storytelling. It suggests that, by using these techniques, stories can engage audiences emotionally and intellectually. Grounded in a historical and theoretical understanding of radio drama, this volume illuminates the foundational works that proceeded popular modern shows such as Radiolab, The Moth, and Serial. Masterful Stories will be a powerful resource in both media history courses and courses teaching audio storytelling for modern radio and other audio formats, such as podcasting. It will appeal to audio fans looking to learn about and understand the early days of radio drama.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138693395 20170907

'You don't have to be a musician; all you need are the ideas and you can come up with something interesting.' Daniel Miller, founder of Mute Records Mute is one of the most revered and influential indie labels of all time. Through the music of its tight-knit community of artists - ranging from Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Nick Cave's The Birthday Party and Einsturzende Neubauten to Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure, Laibach and Goldfrapp - it has had an incalculable impact on popular music for forty years. This authoritative, sumptuously illustrated history of the label features stunning artwork and photography - much of it previously unseen - and revelatory behind-thescenes insights from those who have worked with the label. Revealing text contributions from key players, together with ground-breaking shots and video stills from lengendary photographers, make this book the definitive chronicle of the iconic label, which today has offices in the USA, UK, Germany and France and an unparalleled reputation worldwide.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780500519721 20180122

It wasn't just clothes and hair that changed as the 1960s progressed - social awareness crept into youth culture and music ceased to be simply about dancing. A counter-culture gradually emerged, and rock 'n' roll was its defining feature. Pop music broadened beyond the traditional guitar-bass-drum format and started to experiment with new sounds. Musicianship reached unsurpassable levels, and for a brief, glorious time, genuinely experimental music coincided with the popular taste. The explosion of imagination and ambition that characterised the psychedelic movement of the late 1960s stretched the possibilities of the pop song to their limits. Never before or since were so many classic albums made in such a short time. Psychedelia is the most colourful, detailed and authoritative guide to these albums ever published. One hundred of them are evaluated here, using contemporary reviews, rare photographs and interviews, accompanied by a plethora of iconic images and reproductions of cover artwork.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781786750280 20170703