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Subject(s)

• Sound recordings—History [Browse]
• Music—History and criticism [Browse]
• Sound recordings—Production and direction—History [Browse]
• Sound recording industry—History [Browse]

Related name

• Cook, Nicholas, 1950- [Browse]

Series

Cambridge companions to music [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / the editors
• Learning to live with recording / Susan Tomes
• A short take in praise of long takes / Peter Hill
• Performing for (and against) the microphone / Donald Greig
• Producing a credible vocal / Mike Howlett
• It could have happened : the evolution of music construction / Steve Savage
• Recording practices and the role of the producer / Andrew Blake
• Still small voices / Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
• Broadening horizons : 'performance' in the studio / Michael Haas
• Getting sounds : the art of sound engineering / Albin Zak
• Limitations and creativity in recording and performance / Martyn Ware
• Records and recordings in post-punk England, 1978-80 / Richard Witts
• The politics of the recording studio : a case study from South Africa / Louise Meintjes
• From Lanza to Lassus / Tully Potter
• From wind-up to iPod : techno-cultures of listening / Arild Bergh and Tia DeNora
• A matter of circumstance : on experiencing recordings / Martin Elste
• Selling sounds : recordings and the record business / David Patmore
• Revisiting concert life in the mid-century : the survival of acetate discs / Lewis Foreman
• The development of recording technologies / George Brock-Nannestad
• Raiders of the lost archive / Roger Beardsley
• The original cast recording of West Side Story / Nigel Simeone
• The recorded document : interpretation and discography / Simon Trezise
• One man's approach to remastering / Ted Kendall
• Technology, the studio, music / Nick Mason
• Reminder : a recording is not a performance / Roger Heaton
• Methods for analysing recordings / Nicholas Cook
• Recordings and histories of performance style / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
• Recreating history : a clarinettist's retrospective / Colin Lawson
• Going critical : writing about recordings / Simon Frith
• Something in the air / Chris Watson
• Recording : from reproduction to representation to remediation / Georgina Born.

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Other title(s)

Companion to recorded music

ISBN

• 9780521865821 (hbk.)
• 0521865824 (hbk.)
• 9780521684613 (pbk.)
• 0521684617 (pbk.)

OCLC

318871990

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