Gear
cultures of audio and music technologies
$128.00
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2025
Summary
Gear: Unpacking the Fetishization of Audio Technology in the 21st Century
A critical examination of the twenty-first century fetishization of professional audio technologies, and how it led to a new social formation- gear cultures.
Gear - mixing consoles, outboard effects processors, microphones. These are professional studio recording-related technological objects-the tools of the recording industry-yet their omnipresence in the broader music industries and prosumer markets…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551854 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262551853 |
| Author: | Eliot Bates, Samantha Bennett |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Eliot Bates
Eliot Bates is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the CUNY Graduate Center. They have contributed as a performer, composer, and/or recordist/engineer to more than ninety albums produced in the US, UK, Turkey, and Italy, as well as several TV series and feature films.
Samantha Bennett is Chair of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and Professor of Music at the Australian National University. She is the author of Modern Records, Maverick Methods and Peepshow and coeditor of Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound.
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