Liveness In Modern Music : Musicians, Technology and The Perception Of Performance.

This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music, where liveness is typically understood to represent performance and to stand in opposition to recording, amplification, and other methods of electronically mediating music. The book argues that liveness itself emerges from dynamic tensions inherent in mediated musical contexts—tensions between music as an acoustic human utterance, and musical sound as something produced or altered by machines.

206 p.
Cloth
ISBN: 0415895405
ISBN13: 9780415895408
UPC: 9780415895408