The Social Life of Sound

• Main Author: Maalsen, Sophia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Human geography.; Music.; Ethnology.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Human Geography.; Cultural Anthropology.; Science and Technology Studies.

The Social Life of Sounds argues for the agency of sounds and music and the acceleration of their social lives in the Digital Age. Drawing upon research with composers, producers, record collectors, DJs and record labels, the book problematises the notion of artistic authorship as it is framed in We...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Entroducing
• Chapter 2 Theories and Methodology
• Chapter 3 Not Just Rare but UBER RARE! Biography, Music, and Personhood in Yaraandoo
• Chapter 4 Sampling Genealogies of Sound
• Chapter 5 Sven Libaek and "Misty Canyon"
• Chapter 6 Reissues: Collecting, Curating, Connoisseurship and Cultural Mass
• Chapter 7 Distributed Personhood and the Multiple Biography
• Chapter 8 Conclusion: Somebodies as Multibiographical Sound.