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The ringtone dialectic

economy and cultural form

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An edition of The ringtone dialectic (2013)

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economy and cultural form

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The MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
368

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The ringtone dialectic: economy and cultural form
2013, The MIT Press
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Table of Contents

I. The rise and fall of the ringtone economy. 1. This business of ringtones : the unstable value chain and accumulation of capital by rent in the global ringtone industry
II. Ramifications of the ringtone's identity crisis : the social and cultural fallout of technological transformation. 2. Ringtones and the deskilling of mobile-musical labor : a preliminary investigation
3. Left behind : case studies of decline and recapitulation in the ringtone as representation
4. The ringtone and its aesthetic subgenres in contemporary classical music and media performance / installation art
III. The ringtone's dialectical reversals. 5. The annoying thing : crazy frog and the strange career of a sample
6. The voice of the politician and the geographic dispersion of the political ringtone
7. A spectrum of forms : the aesthetic logic of original sound-file ringtone composition
IV. Revivals and the (universal) particularization of the ringtone
8. Personalization and spectatorship : the ringtone's narrative functions in cinematic and televisual media
9. What's in a name? Race and the ringtone's revival in (un-)popular music.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
384.5/35
Library of Congress
HE9713 .G67 2013, HE9713.G67 2013

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Pagination
xxiii, 368 pages
Number of pages
368

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Open Library
OL27155108M
Internet Archive
ringtonedialecti0000gopi
ISBN 10
0262019159
ISBN 13
9780262019156
LCCN
2012045906
OCLC/WorldCat
829087659

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