Absolute music, mechanical reproduction
By: Arved Ashby.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520264793; 9780520264809
Subjects: Absolute music; Sound recordings -- Social aspects; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The recorded musical text; title: Recording, repetition, and meaning in absolute music; title: Schnabel's rationalism, Gould's pragmatism; title: Digital mythologies; title: Beethoven and the iPod Nation; title: Photo/phono/pornography; title: Mahler as imagist.