From the Fairlight CMI through MIDI to the digital audio workstations at the turn of the millennium,Modern Records,Maverick Methodsexamines a critical period in commercial popular music record production: the transformative digital age from the late 1970s until 2000.
Drawing on a discography of more than 300 recordings across pop, rock, hip hop, dance and alternative musics from artists such as the Beastie Boys, Madonna, U2 and Fatboy Slim, and extensive and exclusive ethnographic work with many world-renowned recordists,Modern Recordspresents a fresh and insightful new perspective on one of the most significant eras in commercial music record production.
The book traces the development of significant music technologies through the 1980s and 1990s, revealing how changing attitudes and innovative techniques of recording personnel reimagined recording processes and, finally, exemplifies the impact of these technologies and techniques via six comprehensive tech-processual analyses. This meticulously researched and timely book reveals the complexity of recordists' responses to a technological landscape in flux.
Samantha Bennettis Associate Professor of Music at the Australian National University. She is the author of
Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow(2018), part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, and co-editor of
Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound(2018) and
Popular Music, Stars and Stardom(2018). Her journal articles are published in
Popular Music,
Popular Music and Society,
The Journal of Popular Music Studiesand
IASPM@journal.
In this deeply researched study of commercial popular music production in the 1980s and '90s, Samantha Bennett turns the digital vs. analog debate on its head, revealing the hybrid maverick methods recordists developed as they blended technologies and practices from both analog and digital domains in a rapidly changing studio envirolă)
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