Includes bibliographical references discography 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
