From Sean Cooper Sent Wed, Aug 18th 1999, 04:35
From Sean Cooper Sent Wed, Aug 18th 1999, 04:35
this one's a book, author: paul theberge. it's another in the wesleyan university popular music/cultural studies series that also includes tricia rose's "black noise" and sarah thornton's "club cultures." "any sound you can imagine" is about the interlocking aesthetic, technological, institutional, and consumer cultural forces delimiting the space of the adoption and utilization of electronic music instruments and recording and editing technologies. i'm only into the introduction, but so far it's quite good, and promises a nice complement/commentary/contrast for consideration of the cultural/aesthetic space of experimentation (i.e., idm, experimental electronica, etc.). sc