num_pages: 450
description: Many media ecologists have speculated about oral culture and custom, but few have documented in situ the cultural changes actually experienced when a traditional system of musical experience is transformed by modern technology. This book is an oral history and ethnographic description of musical change in a small town community in Brazil through the compilation of 40 oral histories. The study of music as communication is squarely within the media ecology theoretical framework of orality-literacy-electronic environments.
language: English
title: Mediating the Muse: A Communications Approach to Music, Media and Cultural Change
titlecomplete: Mediating the Muse: A Communications Approach to Music, Media and Cultural Change (Hampton Press Communication Series. Media Ecology)
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Dorothy Lee Award
category: Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture
publisher: Hampton Pr