Diffusing Music

Trajectories of Sonic Democratization

Ben Neill (Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA)

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English

Bloomsbury Publishing USA
12 December 2024

Music; Media studies; Music industry; Digital music: professional

This book explores the democratization of music in our current era made possible by digital technologies.

Music has become ubiquitous and increasingly intertwined with everyday life, rendering previous models of creation, performance, and consumption obsolete. Diffusing Music identifies trajectories between 20th-century innovators and the broader redefinition of the musical art in popular culture today.

This approach can inform new modalities of musical thinking in the wake of the transformations being actualized by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

The author has been an active participant in many of the scenes and movements that gave rise to musical democratization. His experiences and collaborations with influential figures in the field are woven into the fabric of the narrative.

By: Ben Neill (Ramapo College of New Jersey USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9798765109205
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 12 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Chance Insurgents 2. Systematic Anarchy 3. Inevitable Improvisation 4. Eternal Networks 5. Algominimalism 6. All Music is Ambient Music 7. Deskilling and Democratization 8. Instruments of Change 9. I Am What I Play 10. Mass Musicking 11. Tuning the Emergent Sonosphere Index

Ben Neill is Professor of Music at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA. He is internationally recognized as a technological innovator through his collaborations, recordings, performances, publications, and curation.

Reviews for Diffusing Music: Trajectories of Sonic Democratization

This is an essential book, discussing democratization of music from a historical perspective, as well as looking at its likely future effects on production and consumption of music. Written in a clear, simple language, it should find itself on a shelf of everybody interested in music and its interface with technology and social life. * Ewa Mazierska, Professor of Film Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK * Many musicians are afeard of the encroachment of new distribution patterns and technologies (AI in particular) into our art, but Ben Neill strides into the future boldly, contextualizing them as extensions of historical processes that have been going on for centuries. He notices the pitfalls and dangers, but his stellar career as a postclassical/ambient crossover artist gives him the vantage point to weave the current cacophony of musical practices into a joyous free-for-all in which anyone can participate. * Kyle Gann, Professor of Music, Bard College, US, and author of Charles Ives’s Concord: Essays after a Sonata *