Music and the broadcast experience : performance, production, and audiences

✍ Scribed by Baade, Christina L.; Deaville, James Andrew

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Series: Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How can broadcasting help us understanding music and its cultural role, both historically and today? To answer this question, Music and the Broadcast Experience brings together fourteen leading music and media scholars, who explore how music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.

Abstract:

How can broadcasting help us understanding music and its cultural role, both historically and today? To answer this question, Music and the Broadcast Experience brings together fourteen leading music and media scholars, who explore how music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Bringing the classics home : broadcasting symphonic concerts and opera in early radio. Broadcasting --
concerts : confronting the obvious / Jenny Doctor
The role of opera in the rise of radio in the United States / Timothy D. Taylor --
Spectacular sound : production cultures in broadcast television. Spectacular sound : classical music programming and the problem of "visual interest" in early US television / Shawn VanCour
The machine hums : music, special sound and the spaces in between / Louis Niebur
Musical theater meets reality TV : an investigation into the Canadian context / Christine Quail --
Raising dough on the radio : musical genre and advertising in the swing era. "From operatic pomp to a Benny Goodman stomp!" : frame analysis and the National Biscuit Company's Let's dance / Rika Asai
Passing Pappy's biscuits : dynamics of uneven modernization in regional radio voices / Alexander Russo --
The power of the small screen : musical celebrity in television. Toscanini, Ormandy, and the first televised orchestra concert(s) : the networks and the broadcasting of musical celebrity / James Deaville
John, Yoko, and Mike Douglas : performing avant-garde art and radical politics on American television in the 1970s / Norma Coates --
Music radio on and off the air : publics, structures, and formats. Radio formats in the United States : a (hyper)fragmentation of the imagination / Ron Rodman
Music radio goes online / Tim Wall --
Worlds apart : space, community, and participation in the web 2.0 era. New media, new festival worlds : rethinking cultural events and televisuality through TouTube and the Tomorrowland Music Festival / Fabian Holt
Worship on the web : broadcasting devotion through worship music videos on YouTube / Monique M. Ingalls
Incarcerated music : broadcasting and the tactics of music listening in prison / Christina L. Baade.

✦ Subjects

Radio and music.;Television and music.;Music and the Internet.;MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.;MUSIC -- Reference.