Noise uprising
Subtitle: the audiopolitics of a world musical revolution
By: Michael Denning
Publisher: Verso; Verso Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781781688564; 9781781688557; 9781781688588
Subjects: Popular music; Decolonization; World music; Sound recordings; History and criticism; Phonograph; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 289-295), and index.
Table of contents: title: Turnarounds : the soundscape of vernacular phonograph music, 1925-1930; title: The polyphony of colonial ports : the social space of the vernacular music revolution. An archipelago of colonial ports ; Musical cultures of the colonial ports ; Counterpoint of musicians; title: Phonographing the vernacular : remaking the world of music. The music industry in the age of electrical recording ; Vernacular phonograph music and the world music guild; title: Phonograph culture : the remaking of vernacular musicking. A world of record players ; From song and dance to records; title: Decolonizing the ear : the cultural revolution of vernacular phonograph musics. His master's voice? Colonizing the ear ; The coming combat ; Trans-colonial reverberations; title: "A noisy heaven and a syncopated earth" : remaking the musical ear. Noisy timbres ; The servants' hall of rhythm ; Weird harmonies ; Recorded improvisations; title: Remastering the 78s : reverberations of a musical revolution. Antinomies of folk revivals ; Antinomies of world music; title: Appendix. Playlist.