The impact of digital technologies on the production, distribution and consumption of popular music has been swift, wide-ranging and powerful. From shifts in format, through the effects on circulation and ownership, to the rise of digitally-produced genres, the ways we create, s…
Taking a distinctive, multi-theoretical look at popular music's place in contemporary society, this book is both an original inquiry and an assessment of the state of popular music - its protagonists, audiences and practices.
Pt. 1. Research challenges in a changing broadcast environment -- pt. 2. Research issues and advances in global broadcasting -- pt. 3. International perspectives on broadcasting in the digital age.
Fetish : biological art and the death of God -- Prosthesis : database art and the death of the subject -- Fragment : Internet art and the crisis of transcendence -- Bricolage : intermedia art and the integrity of fallibility.
Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift - celluloid film is being replaced by digital media. The author asks what is different in the way digital movies depict the world and engage with the individual and how we might best address the technological shift within…
"Is digital production killing the soul of music? Is Auto-Tune the nadir of creative expression? Digital technology has changed not only how music is produced, distributed, and consumed but also--equally important but not often considered--how music sounds. In this book, Ragnhil…