Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction, Simon Frith and Simon Zagorski-Thomas; Part I Historical Approaches: The lacquer disc for immediate playback: professional recording and home recording from the 1920s to the 1950s, George Brock-Nannestad; The sounds of space: studio as instrument in the era of high fidelity, Susan Schmidt Horning; No-fi: crafting a language of recorded music in 1950s pop, Albin Zak III; The US vs the UK sound: meaning in music production in the 1970s, Simon Zagorski-Thomas; The end of the world as we know it: the changing role of the studio in the age of the internet, Paul Théberge; Interlude 1: comments and commentaries by industry professionals and producers, Phil Harding, Bob Olhsson, Steve Savage, Richard James Burgess, Jerry Boys and Paul D. Miller. Part II Theoretical Approaches: Beyond a musicology of production, Allan Moore; 'I'm not hearing what you're hearing': the conflict and connection of headphone mixes and multiple audioscapes, Alan Williams; The self-effacing producer: absence summons presence, Michael Jarrett; Rethinking creativity: record production and the systems model, Phillip McIntyre; Considering space in recorded music, William Moylan; Interlude 2: comments and commentaries by industry professionals, and producers, Mike Howlett, Richard James Burgess, Maureen Droney, Bob Olhsson and Robin Millar. Part III Case Studies: Simulating the ideal performance: Suvi Raj Grubb and classical music production, Andrew Blake; The place of the producer in the discourse of rock, Simon Frith; The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and the musicology of record production, Jan Butler; Tubby's dub style: the live art of record production, Sean Williams; Recording the Revolution: 50 years of music studios in revolutionary Cuba, Jan Fairley and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier; Interlude 3: comments and commentaries by industry professionals and producers, Maureen Droney, Jerry Boys, Richard James Burgess, Mike Howlett, Paul D. Miller, Katia Isakoff, Tony Platt and Phil Harding; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.