The Cambridge Companion To Music In Digital Culture

Digital technology has profoundly transformed almost all aspects of musical culture. This book explains how and why.

This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.

Featuring fascinating accounts from practitioners, this Companion examines how developments in recording have transformed musical culture.

A wide-ranging survey of video game music creation, practice, perception and analysis - clear, authoritative and up-to-date.

This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

An exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.

The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.

A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.