Ease Reading-Find Your Next Favorite Book

Hot Search

Strange Sounds: Music, Technology & Culture

timothy d. taylor

... Show More
In Strange Sounds, Timothy D. Taylor explains the wonder and anxiety provoked by a technological revolution that began in the 1940s and gathers steam daily. Taylor discusses the cultural role of technology, its use in making music, and the inevitable concerns about "authenticity" that arise from electronic music. Informative and highly entertaining for both music fans and scholars, Strange Sounds is a provocative look at how we perform, listen to, and understand music today.

292 pages, Paperback

First published September 28,2001

This edition

Format
292 pages, Paperback
Published
December 12, 2001 by Routledge
ISBN
9780415936842
ASIN
0415936845
Language
English

More editions

About the author

Profile Image for timothy d. taylor

timothy d. taylor

... Show More

Readers also enjoyed

Community Reviews

Rating(5 / 5.0, 2 votes)
5 stars
2(100%)
4 stars
0(0%)
3 stars
0(0%)
2 stars
0(0%)
1 stars
0(0%)
2 reviews All reviews
Profile Image for Kimberly .
jose_samson1004
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
April 26,2025
... Show More
Read specifically for the chapter entitled Technostalgia.
A heady but worthwhile way of pulling together anthropological research into music and sound.
0 0 Reply
Profile Image for Kimberly .
Alfyboi17
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
April 26,2025
... Show More
There are definitely interesting parts here and there.

But for me, the ideas that the author tries to formulate and elaborate are far from well-defined. It seems that at each chapter, the reader has to go through a good deal of bla-bla and sociological name-dropping before getting some sort of thesis.

I would not know which other book to recommend but there are definitely a lot of others, music-related, that I would recommmend before this one. Ok let’s drop one:
Dialectique de la pop, de Agnès Gayraud
0 0 Reply
Leave a Review
You must be logged in to rate and post a review. Register an account to get started.