Gopinath, Sumanth. <br/><br/>
The Ringtone Dialectic :  Economy and Cultural Form. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (393 pages) 
 - The MIT Press Series .
 - The MIT Press Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262315081 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ring tones -- Social aspects.<br/>Cell phones -- Social aspects.<br/>Cell phone services industry.<br/>Mobile games industry.<br/>Internet entertainment industry.<br/>Digital media -- Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HE9713.G67 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>384.535