The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1
The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1
- ISBN 13:
9780195375725
- ISBN 10:
0195375726
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/22/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Volume 1 provides an introduction to the study of mobile music through the examination of its devices, markets, and theories. Conceptualizing a long history of mobile music extending from the late nineteenth century to the present, the volume focuses on the conjunction of human mobility and forms of sound production and reproduction. The volume's chapters investigate the MP3, copyright law and digital downloading, music and cloud computing, the iPod, the transistor radio, the automated call center, sound and text messaging, the mobile phone, the militarization of iPod usage, the cochlear implant, the portable sound recorder, listening practices of schoolchildren and teenagers, the ringtone, mobile music in the urban soundscape, the boombox, mobile music marketing in Mexico and Brazil, music piracy in India, and online radio in Japan and the US.