Wired for sound engineering and technologies in sonic cultures (Wesleyan University Press, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction - Wired sound and sonic cultures - Paul D. Greene -- - Reaching "overseas" : South African sound engineers, technology, and tradition - Louise Meintjes -- " - The disc is not the avenue" : schismogenetic mimesis in samba recording - Frederick J. Moehn -- - Nigel Pegrum, "didjeridu-friendly sections," and what constitutes an "indigenous" CD : an Australian case study of producing "world music" recordings - Karl Neuenfeldt -- - Music mediated as live in Austin : sound, technology, and recording practice - Thomas Porcello -- - Media as social action : native American musicians in the recording studio - Beverley Diamond -- - Engineering techno-hybrid grooves in two Indonesian sound studios - Jeremy Wallach -- - Short-circuiting perceptual systems : timbre in ambient and techno music - Cornelia Fales -- - "Heaviness" in the perception of heavy metal guitar timbres : the match of perceptual and acoustic features over time - Harris M. Berger - Cornelia Fales -- - Mixed messages : unsettled cosmopolitanisms in Nepali pop - Paul D. Greene -- - The soundscape of the radio : engineering Modern songs and superculture in Nepal - Ingemar Grandin -- - Music and the rise of radio in twenties America : technological imperialism, socialization, and the transformation of intimacy - Timothy D. Taylor