The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music
- Editor: Fink, Robert
- Editor: Latour, Melinda
- Editor: Wallmark, Zach
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Contents
- Introduction
- Chasing the Dragon: In Search of Tone in Popular Music
- Robert Fink, Zachary Wallmark, and Melinda Latour
- I. Genre
- Chapter 1
- Hearing Timbre: Perceptual Learning Among Early Bay Area Ravers
- Cornelia Fales
- Chapter 2
- The Twang Factor in Country Music
- Jocelyn R. Neal
- Chapter 3
- The Sound of Evil: Timbre, Body, and Sacred Violence in Death Metal
- Zachary Wallmark
- Chapter 4
- Below 100 Hz: Toward a Musicology of Subbass
- Robert Fink
- II. Voice
- Chapter 5
- Timbre and Legal Likeness: The Case of Tom Waits
- Mark C. Samples
- Chapter 6
- The Triumph of Jimmy Scott: A Voice Beyond Category
- Nina Sun Eidsheim
- Chapter 7
- Auto-tune, Labor, and the Pop Music Voice
- Catherine Provenzano
- III. Instrument
- Chapter 8
- Hearing Luxe Pop: Jay Z, Isaac Hayes, and the Six Degrees of Symphonic Soul
- John Howland
- Chapter 9
- Santana and the Metaphysics of Tone: Feedback Loops, Volume Knobs and the
- Quest for Transcendence
- Melinda Latour
- Chapter 10
- Synthesizers as Social Protest in Early 1970s Funk
- Griffin Woodworth
- Chapter 11
- Crossing the Electronic Divide: Guitars, Synthesizers, and the Shifting
- Sound Field of Fusion
- Steve Waksman
- IV. Production
- Chapter 12
- Clash of the Timbres: Recording Authenticity in the California Rock Scene, 1966-68
- Jan Butler
- Chapter 13
- The Death Rattle of a Laughing Hyena: The Sound of Musical Democracy
- Albin J. Zak III
- Chapter 14
- The Sound of Nowhere: Reverb and the Construction of Sonic Space
- Paul Theberge
- Chapter 15
- The Spectromorphology of Recorded Popular Music:
- The Shaping of Sonic Cartoons Through Record Production
- Simon Zagorski-Thomas
- Afterword
- Simon Frith