Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies

Contents

• Foreword Howard S. Becker
• Introduction Antoine Hennion and Christophe Levaux
• I. Histories
• 1. Rameau and Harmony: Can Theory Make Reason of Music?
• Antoine Hennion
• 2. Sounding Standards: A History Concert Pitch, between Musicology and STS
• Fanny Gribenski
• 3. Is DIY a Punk Invention?: Learning processes, Recording Devices, and Social Knowledge
• Francois Ribac
• 4. Secure and Insecure Bases in the Performance of Western Classical Music
• Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
• 5. Deep Structure: The Generative Subject in Actor-Network Theory and Musicology
• Patrick Valiquet
• II. Instruments
• 6. Sonic Imaginaries: How Hugh Davies and David Van Koevering Performed Electronic Music's Future
• James Mooney and Trevor Pinch
• 7. Following the Instruments: The Designers and Users of the Fairlight CMI
• Paul Harkins
• 8. The Interface and Instrumentality of Eurorack Modular Synthesis
• Eliot Bates
• III. Technologies
• 9. Human Sounds and the Obscenity of Information
• David Trippett
• 10. STS Confronts the Vocaloid: Assemblage Thinking with Hatsune Miku
• Nick Prior
• 11. Similarity and Difference in Sound Studies (and elsewhere)
• Basile Zimmermann
• IV. Practices
• 12. Smartphones, Streaming Platforms, and the Infrastructuring of Digital Music Practices
• Paolo Magaudda
• 13. Tracing the Music Actor-Network: Losing the Meaning of Musical Experience? The Limits of a Routinization of Science and Technology Studies Applied to Techniques and Knowledges of Music
• Francois Debruyne
• 14. Musicalized Images: Composing, Playing, Remixing, and Performing Net Art
• Jean-Paul Fourmentraux