TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gopinath,Sumanth
TI  - The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form
T2  - The MIT Press Series
SN  - 9780262315081
AV  - HE9713.G67 2013eb 
U1  - 384.535 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Ring tones -- Social aspects
KW  - Cell phones -- Social aspects
KW  - Cell phone services industry
KW  - Mobile games industry
KW  - Internet entertainment industry
KW  - Digital media -- Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics
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