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The Ringtone Dialectic : Economy and Cultural Form.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (393 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262315081
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Ringtone DialecticDDC classification:
  • 384.535
LOC classification:
  • HE9713.G67 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The Rise and Fall of the Ringtone Economy -- 1 This Business of Ringtones -- II Ramifications of the Ringtone's Identity Crisis -- 2 Ringtones and the Deskilling of Mobile-Musical Labor -- 3 Left Behind -- 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 -- 6 The Voice of the Politician and the Geographic Dispersion of the Political Ringtone -- 7 A Spectrum of Forms -- IV Revivals and the (Universal) Particularization of the Ringtone -- 8 Personalization and Spectatorship -- 9 What's in a Name? Race and the Ringtone's Revival in (Un-)Popular Music -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The Rise and Fall of the Ringtone Economy -- 1 This Business of Ringtones -- II Ramifications of the Ringtone's Identity Crisis -- 2 Ringtones and the Deskilling of Mobile-Musical Labor -- 3 Left Behind -- 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 -- 6 The Voice of the Politician and the Geographic Dispersion of the Political Ringtone -- 7 A Spectrum of Forms -- IV Revivals and the (Universal) Particularization of the Ringtone -- 8 Personalization and Spectatorship -- 9 What's in a Name? Race and the Ringtone's Revival in (Un-)Popular Music -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics.

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