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The Musicology of Record Production

Simon Zagorski-Thomas author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:2nd Feb '17

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Simon Zagorski-Thomas sets out a framework for the study of record production using current ideas from psychology and sociology.

Recorded music is as different to live music as film is to theatre. In this book, Simon Zagorski-Thomas sets out a framework for the study of recorded music and record production using current ideas from psychology and sociology.Recorded music is as different to live music as film is to theatre. In this book, Simon Zagorski-Thomas employs current theories from psychology and sociology to examine how recorded music is made and how we listen to it. Setting out a framework for the study of recorded music and record production, he explains how recorded music is fundamentally different to live performance, how record production influences our interpretation of musical meaning and how the various participants in the process interact with technology to produce recorded music. He combines ideas from the ecological approach to perception, embodied cognition and the social construction of technological systems to provide a summary of theoretical approaches that are applied to the sound of the music and the creative activity of production. A wide range of examples from Zagorski-Thomas's professional experience reveal these ideas in action.

ISBN: 9781107428348

Dimensions: 243mm x 170mm x 15mm

Weight: 490g

278 pages