"I sing the body electric" : music and technology in the 20th century /

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Corporate Authors: Symposium ICOHTEC, International Committee for the History of Technology.
Other Authors: Braun, Hans-Joachim., Braun, H.-J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Hofheim] : Wolke, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Keyboards, crankshafts and communication, the musical mindset of western technology / Geoffrey Hindley
  • Electronic instruments
  • classifications and mechanisms / Hugh Davies
  • 'It all began with a broken organ'
  • the role of Yamaha in Japan's music development / Tatsuya Kobayashi
  • The social construction of the synthesizer / Trevor Pinch & Frank Trocco
  • My soul is in the machine
  • Conlon Nancarrow
  • composer for player piano
  • precursor of computer music / Jürgen Hocker
  • Music and the city / Barbara Berthelmes
  • 'Moving on'
  • airplanes and locomotives in 20th century music / Hans-Joachim Braun
  • 'A servile imitation'
  • disputes about machines in music, 1910-1930 / Karin Bijsterveld
  • Sound microscopy and music in the 20th century, a survey with special reference to Hungary / István Pintér
  • From polka to punk
  • growth of an independent recording studio, 1934-1977 / Susan Schmidt-Horning
  • The origins of the 45-rpm record at RCA Victor, 1939-1948 / Alexander B. Magoun
  • Tape recording and music making / Andre Millard
  • Musicians and the sound revolution
  • business, labor, and technology in America, 1890-1950 / Jame P. Kraft
  • Aesthetics out of exigency, violin vibrato and the phonograph / Mark Katz
  • Reversing the reverse salient in electric guitar technology
  • noise, humbuckers and Jimi Hendrix / Rebecca McSwain
  • Soundsampling
  • an aesthetic challenge / Helga de la Motte-Haber
  • New technology
  • new artistic genres
  • changes in the concept and aesthetics of music / Martha Brech
  • Musical education and the new media
  • the current situation and perspectives for the future / Bernd Enders.