| This dual research project (postdoc, PhDstudent) will examine how various sound and recording technologies have affected transformations in the cultural practice of listening and making music in Western Europe between 1945 and 2003, and will theorize how these technologies helped shift boundaries in people's active/passive participation in music culture. The postdoc project will focus on the role of sound technologies in the creation of art music; more specifically, it will question how analogue and digital technologies affect the boundaries between production and reproduction of music as well as the roles of creator, technician, producer, and distributor of music. The PhD project thematizes the impact of various recording technologies (tape, cassette, compact disk, computer) on the (re)creation of popmusic. The boundaries between recording and rerecording, between listening and re-creating, and bewteen copying and editing music will serve as a node of inquiry. Combining a historical-technological perspective with a social constructivist and cultural analytical approach, |
