The Cambridge companion to recorded music

The Cambridge companion to recorded music / edited by Nicholas Cook ... [et al.].

Featuring fascinating accounts from practitioners including performers and producers, this companion examines how developments in recording have transformed musical culture.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cook, Nicholas, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:Cambridge companions to music.
Subjects:
Sound recordings > History.
Sound recordings > Production and direction > History.
Music > History and criticism.
Sound recording industry > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / the editors
  • Learning to live with recording / Susan Tomes
  • A short take in praise of long takes / Peter Hill
  • Performing for (and against) the microphone / Donald Greig
  • Producing a credible vocal / Mike Howlett
  • It could have happened : the evolution of music construction / Steve Savage
  • Recording practices and the role of the producer / Andrew Blake
  • Still small voices / Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
  • Broadening horizons : 'performance' in the studio / Michael Haas
  • Getting sounds : the art of sound engineering / Albin Zak
  • Limitations and creativity in recording and performance / Martyn Ware
  • Records and recordings in post-punk England, 1978-80 / Richard Witts
  • The politics of the recording studio : a case study from South Africa / Louise Meintjes
  • From Lanza to Lassus / Tully Potter
  • From wind-up to iPod : techno-cultures of listening / Arild Bergh and Tia DeNora
  • A matter of circumstance : on experiencing recordings / Martin Elste
  • Selling sounds : recordings and the record business / David Patmore
  • Revisiting concert life in the mid-century : the survival of acetate discs / Lewis Foreman
  • The development of recording technologies / George Brock-Nannestad
  • Raiders of the lost archive / Roger Beardsley
  • The original cast recording of West Side Story / Nigel Simeone
  • The recorded document : interpretation and discography / Simon Trezise
  • One man's approach to remastering / Ted Kendall
  • Technology, the studio, music / Nick Mason
  • Reminder : a recording is not a performance / Roger Heaton
  • Methods for analysing recordings / Nicholas Cook
  • Recordings and histories of performance style / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
  • Recreating history : a clarinettist's retrospective / Colin Lawson
  • Going critical : writing about recordings / Simon Frith
  • Something in the air / Chris Watson
  • Recording : from reproduction to representation to remediation / Georgina Born.

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