Absolute music, mechanical reproduction /
Ashby, Arved Mark.
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The recorded musical text -- Recording, repetition, and memory in absolute music -- Schnabel's rationalism, Gould's pragmatism -- Digital mythologies --  Beethoven and the iPod Nation -- Photo/phono/porno -- Mahler as imagist.
Gould, Glenn
Schnabel, Artur, 1882-1951
Absolute music.
Sound recordings
Music
Performance practice (Music)
Music and technology.
Sound
MP3 (Audio coding standard)