Gear
Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies
$192.40
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2025
Summary
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 transcends the entrenched pro audio engineer guild. In Gear: Cultures of Audio…
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 |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“An impressive and timely collection of fifteen chapters that apply the concept of gear to the study of media technologies.”—H-Net Reviews“After reading this book, you will also question why you own any of the recording equipment you have. Instead, you’ll hope for a future where recordists purchase what they actually need, and that we’ll all give up the search for some old metal box The Beatles once ran a signal through.” —TapeOp Magazine
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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