UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Music and Digital Media: A planetary anthropology, edited by Georgina Born. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3AdCSFy
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Music and Digital Media
A planetary anthropology
Edited by Georgina Born
Free download: https://bit.ly/3AdCSFy
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Anthropology has neglected the study of music and this needs to be redressed. This book sets out to show how and why. It does so by bringing music to the subfield of digital anthropology, arguing that digital anthropology has much to gain by expanding its horizons to music – becoming more interdisciplinary by reference to digital/media studies, music and sound studies.
Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the 'digital' assume clamouring audibility – while acting as a testing ground for innovations in the digital-cultural industries. The book contains ten chapters, eight of which present comprehensive original ethnographies. The chapters between them addresses popular, folk and art musics in the global South and North, including Kenya, Argentina, India, Canada and the UK/Europe, with each chapter providing a different regional or digital focus.
The book is unique in bringing ethnographic research on popular, folk and art musics from the global North and South into a comparative framework on a large scale, and creates an innovative new paradigm for comparative anthropology.
Free download: https://bit.ly/3AdCSFy
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