The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality
- Editor: Rambarran, Shara
- Editor: Whiteley, Sheila
[The Oxford Handbook of] Music and Virtuality is a strong contribution to the literature on popular music and on computers and technology more broadly. Recommended —
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Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Companion Website and List of Musical Examples
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Andy Bennett
- Introduction
- Sheila Whiteley
- PART 1 The Pre-Digital Virtual
- Introduction
- 1 In Seventeenth Heaven: Virtual Listening and its Discontents
- Christian Lloyd
- 2 Nothing is Real: The Beatles as Virtual Performers
- Philip Auslander and Ian Inglis
- 3 Tom, Jerry and the Virtual Virtuoso
- Sheila Whiteley
- 4 Bring that Beat Back: Sampling as Virtual Collaboration
- Rowan Oliver
- 5 An Analysis of Virtuality in the Creation and Reception of the Music of Frank Zappa
- Paul Carr
- PART 2 Vocaloids, Holograms and Virtual Pop Stars
- Introduction
- 6 Vocaloids and Japanese Virtual Vocal Performance: The Cultural Heritage and Technological Futures of Vocal Puppetry
- Louise H. Jackson and Mike Dines
- 7 Hatsune Miku and Japanese Virtual Idols
- Rafal Zaborowski
- 8 Hatsune Miku, 2.0Pac and Beyond: Rewinding and Fast-Forwarding the Virtual Pop Star
- Thomas Conner
- 9 Feel Good with Gorillaz and Reject False Icons: The Fantasy Worlds of the Virtual Group and their Creators
- Shara Rambarran
- PART 3 Second Life
- Introduction
- 10 Avatar Rockstars: Constructing Musical Personae in Virtual Worlds
- Trevor S. Harvey
- 11 Performing Live in Second Life
- Justin Gagen and Nicholas Cook
- 12 Live Opera Performance in Second Life: Challenging Producers, Performers and the Audience
- Marco Antonio Chavez-Aguayo
- PART 4 Authorship, Creativity and Musicianship
- Introduction
- 13 We Are, The Colors: Collaborative Narration and the Experimental Construction of a Non-Existent Band
- Alon Ilsar and Charles Fairchild
- 14 Music in Perpetual Beta: Composition, Remediation, and 'Closure'
- Paul Draper and Frank Millward
- 15 Justin Bieber Featuring Slipknot: Consumption as Mode of Production
- Ragnhild Brovig-Hanssen
- 16 Human After All: Understanding Negotiations of Artistic Identity through the Music of Daft Punk
- Cora S. Palfy
- 17 Virtual Bands: Recording Music Under the Big Top
- David Tough
- PART 5 Communities and the World-Wide-Web
- Introduction
- 18 Uploading to Carnegie Hall: The First YouTube Symphony Orchestra
- Shzr Ee Tan
- 19 The Listener as Remixer: Mix Stems in Online Fan Community and Competition Contexts
- Samantha Bennett
- 20 Sample Sharing: Virtual Laptop Ensemble Communities
- Benjamin O'Brien
- 21 Stone Tapes: Ghost Box, Nostalgia, and Post-War England
- David Pattie
- 22 From Hypnagogia to Distroid: Postironic Musical Renderings of Personal Memory
- Adam Trainer
- 23 Bands in Virtual Spaces, Social Networking and Masculinity
- Danijela Bogdanovic
- PART 6 Sonic Environments and Musical Experience
- Introduction
- 24 From Environmental Sound To Virtual Environment Enhancing: Consuming Ambiance as Listening Practice
- Thomas Brett
- 25 App Music
- Jeremy Wade Morris
- 26 Alternative Virtuality. Independent Micro Labels Facing the Ideological Challenge of Virtual Music Culture: The Case of Finnish Ektro Records
- Juho Kaitajarvi-Tiekso
- 27 Everybody Knows There is Here: Surveying the Indexi-Local in CBC Radio 3
- Michael Audette-Longo
- 28 Mind Usurps Program: Virtuality and the New Machine Aesthetic of Electronic Dance Music
- Benjamin Halligan
- PART 7 Participatory Culture and Fundraising
- Introduction
- 29 Virtual Music, Virtual Money: The Impact of Crowdfunding Models on Creativity, Authorship and Identity
- Mark Thorley
- 30 With a Little Help From My Friends, Family and Fans. DIY, Participatory Culture and Social Capital in Music Crowdfunding
- Francesco D'Amato
- 31 Music and Crowdfunded Websites: Digital Patronage and Artist-Fan Interactivity
- Justin Williams and Ross Wilson
- PART 8 Authors' Blog: Final Thoughts on Music and Virtuality
- Ed. Paul Carr
- PART 9 Glossary
- Ed. Shara Rambarran
- Index