Mediatization in Popular Music Recorded Artifacts

Performance on Record and on Screen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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In Mediatization in Popular Music Recorded Artifacts: Performance on Record and on Screen, the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence is investigated through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Alessandro Bratus explores technological mediation as a process of authentication that involves a chain of interconnected instances that have their roots in the cultural context in which the media products are designed to be marketed, and that also shape its recording technique and post-production. The book analyzes posthumous records, a peculiar case of the organization of recorded tracks made in absentia of their original performers that puts forward the possibility of an “otherworldly” collaboration between the living and the dead. Bratus also argues that the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers and audiences reverberates in the audiovisual construction of the filmed concert, in which the spectator is put in the position of a witness rather than an active participant.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-10-10
Mått161 x 225 x 23 mm
Vikt635 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498556323

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Introduction: Theoretically Live: Performance and Mediation between Experience, Intermediality, and AuthenticityChapter 1: Live Once, and Witness Forever: The Analytical FrameworkChapter 2: The Many Lives of Jimi: Recordings and Utopian Spaces in Hendrix’s Posthumous AlbumsChapter 3: So Empty without Me? Heritage, Realness and Memory in Tupac Shakur’s Posthumous RecordsChapter 4: Identity as Timbre: Johnny Cash’s Expansive Identity in the American Recordings and BeyondChapter 5: A Conversation with No Speakers: Live without AudienceChapter 6: Live EDM: Audiovisual Performativity for Bodies and MachinesCoda: (Living?) In the Material World: The In-Betweenness of Michael Jackson’s This Is It

Bratus' book provides a worthwhile contribution to the growing body of research on mediatized uses of music in the popular domain. This book is theoretically strong and well-argued throughout, extending our understanding of several uniquely contemporary phenomena with reference to current theory on musicology, sound studies, media studies, and cultural studies. Bratus is well informed about the issues he discusses, bearing on questions of performance, technology, gender and the body, temporality, authenticity, and other key areas of concern. Anyone interested in delving deeper into current thinking on mediatized performances of popular music in the present historical moment would be advised to read this book.