Stylistic morphing: Notes on the digitisation of contemporary music culture

Convergence

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 106-121

  Sandywell, Barry ^a   Beer, David ^b  

^a Department of Sociology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural industries; Cultural morphing; Digitisation; Genre; Hybridisation; Popular music

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749667007     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177//1354856505061057     Document Type: Article

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12. Theodor Adorno, 'Culture Industry Reconsidered', in The Culture Industry, ed. J. M. Bernstein (London: Routledge, 2001) pp. 98-106
13. Martin Hand; Barry Sandywell, 'E-Topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, Toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism', Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 19, no. 1/2 (2002), pp. 197-225
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16. See Andrew Blake, Living Through Pop (London: Routledge, 1999)
17. and Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (London: Quartet Books, 1999)
18. A more extended study of morphing practices would need to explore these, and other examples, in greater depth and empirical detail. See Andrew Goodwin, 'Sample and Hold'; Seb Hunter (ed.), Hell Bent For Leather (London: Fourth Estate, 2003)
19. Mikhail M. Bakhtin, 'Discourse in the Novel', in The Dialogic Imagination. Four Essays, trans. C. Emerson and M. Holquist (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1984)
20. Tia DeNora, Music in Everyday Life: Soundtrack, Self and Embodiments in Everyday Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
21. Barry Sandywell, 'The Myth of Everyday Life: Toward a Heterology of the Ordinary', Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 2/3 (2004), pp. 160-180
22. Theodor Adorno, 'Culture Industry Reconsidered'
23. and Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (London: Pimlico, 1999). pp. 211-244
24. See Scott Lash, Critique of Information (London: Sage, 2002)
25. See the work of Don Ihde for a phenomenological rationale for such a programme: Don Ihde, Technology and the Lifeworld (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1990)
26. Postphenomenology. Essays in the Postmodern Context (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1993)
27. (ed.), Instrumental Realism (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1991)
28. See also Barry Sandywell, Logological Investigations, 3 vols. (London: Routledge, 1996)
29. 'Beyond Metaphysics and Nihilism', Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 2/3 (2004), pp. 483-493; and 'The Myth of Everyday Life'
30. Barry Sandywell, 'The Myth of Everyday Life', p. 174