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Interpreting the synthesizer : meaning through sonics.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781527559110
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML1092 .I584 2020
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Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Contributors -- Index
Subject: This volume examines the synthesizer's significance for music and culture, with a range of contributors providing historical, musicological, practical and theoretical perspectives.The synthesizer as an instrument has evolved rapidly over the last 50 years, conveying different meanings in musical culture at various times in its history. For example, post-punk and new wave acts used synths to signify their embrace of futurism and modernity. Earlier psychedelic bands used the instrument to sonically represent mind expansion while prog acts signposted their lineage to the classical avant-garde. Te.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Contributors -- Index

This volume examines the synthesizer's significance for music and culture, with a range of contributors providing historical, musicological, practical and theoretical perspectives.The synthesizer as an instrument has evolved rapidly over the last 50 years, conveying different meanings in musical culture at various times in its history. For example, post-punk and new wave acts used synths to signify their embrace of futurism and modernity. Earlier psychedelic bands used the instrument to sonically represent mind expansion while prog acts signposted their lineage to the classical avant-garde. Te.

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