Mediating the Culture Wars by Eric Bain-Selbo

Quantity in Basket:none Code: 1-57273-470-1 Price:$24.95 Title: Mediating the Culture Wars Author(s): Eric Bain-Selbo Description: One of the principle preoccupations of media ecology has been the relationship of technology and communication. While many media ecologists have speculated about oral culture and custom, few have documented in situ the cultural changes actually experienc Contents: Prologue: The Little Man Who Wasn't There. THE THEORY. Communication in a New Key: The Extraordinary Role of Energy in the Communication of Music. In the Time Before Rhyme: The Media Ecology of Music and the Revolutionary Mimesis of Sound. And the Word W Publish Date: 2003 Pages: 248 Price: 24.95 Affiliation: Lebanon Valley College Series: Critical Education and Ethics Format: p Category: CEE

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One of the principle preoccupations of media ecology has been the relationship of technology and communication. While many media ecologists have speculated about oral culture and custom, 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 with individuals of various ages and a year long observation of numerous musical contexts within Abadiania. Chapter One places the study of music as communication squarely within the media ecology theoretical framework of orality-literacy-electronic environments. Chapter Two attempts to ground the study of music as communication more deeply within the media ecological perspective by presenting a standard history of music in Western culture. Chapter Three presents a detailed account of the study's methodology. Chapter Four provides a description of life in Abadiania. The book then presents the actual descriptions of musical experience as offered by four different age categories: the elders (Chapter Five), the middle aged (Chapter Six), young adults (Chapter Seven), and the youth (Chapter Eight). Chapter Nine concludes the book within the media ecological framework in which the book opened, illuminating the list of significant and well documented changes which occurred in the musical and cultural life of Abadiania over the course of four generations. Year: 2003 Pages: 248