Sonic Synergies: Music Technology Community Identity

Sonic Synergies: Music Technology Community Identity focuses on the new and emerging synergies of music and digital technology within the new knowledge economies. Eighteen scholars representing six international perspectives explore the global and local ramifications of rapidly changing new technologies on creative industries local communities music practitioners and consumers. Diverse areas are considered such as production consumption historical and cultural context legislation globalization and the impact upon the individual. Drawing on a range of musical genres from jazz heavy metal hip-hop and trance and through several detailed case studies reflecting on the work of professional and local amateur artists this book offers an important discussion of the ways in which the face of music is changing. Approaching these areas from a cultural studies perspective this text will be a valuable tool for anyone engaged in the study of popular culture music or digital technologies.