Mediating the Muse

A Communications Approach to Music, Media, and Cultural Change

• Author(s): Robert Albrecht,
• Publisher: Hampton Press
• Pages: 450
• ISBN_10: 1572735104
  ISBN_13: 9781572735101
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Music / General , Music / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... Many media ecologists have speculated about oral culture and custom, but few have documented in situ the cultural changes actually experienced when a traditional system of musical experience is transformed by modern technology. This book is an oral history and ethnographic description of musical change in a small town community in Brazil through the compilation of 40 oral histories. The study of music as communication is squarely within the media ecology theoretical framework of orality-literacy-electronic environments.