Dear All,

On Monday, 1 December 2014 at 5pm there will be a book launch for the two-volume Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies (below my signature you'll find details on the two volumes). Oxford University Press will be hosting the reception.

The launch will take place at the Ertegun House, 37A St Giles (just across the road from St John's College). Sumanth Gopinath and I will give a short overview of the project but the event is principally to drink some wine, eat some nibbles, and celebrate the release of the two volumes.

We'd be delighted if you could join us.

Best wishes,

Jason

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Jason Stanyek
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology
Tutorial Fellow, St. John's College
University of Oxford
Tel: +44 (0)1865 610879


Oxford Hanbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volumes 1 and 2
We'd like to announce that two new volumes on mobile music studies have just been published by Oxford University Press. Edited by Sumanth Gopinath (University of Minnesota) and Jason Stanyek (University of Oxford) and comprising 42 chapters and 500,000 words of text, The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies (Volume 1 <http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780195375725.do> and Volume 2<http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199913657.do>) examines how electrical technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile--portable, fungible and ubiquitous. At once a marketing term, a common mode of everyday-life performance, and an instigator of experimental aesthetics, ‘mobile music’ opens up a space for studying the momentous transformations in the production, distribution, consumption, and experience of music and sound that took place from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.

The Table of Contents for each volume can be found below. Further information can be found here:

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780195375725.do

And here:

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199913657.do



Table of Contents, Volume 1
1. Anytime/Anywhere? An Introduction to the Devices, Markets, and Theories of Mobile Music
Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Stanyek

Part I: Theorizing Mobile Music
2. How the MP3 Became Ubiquitous
Jonathan Sterne
3. Is a Download a Performance?
Marc Perlman
4. Divisible Mobility: Music in an Age of Cloud Computing
Martin Scherzinger
5. iPod Use, Mediation and Privatization in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Michael Bull
6. Changing Cultural Coordinates: The Transistor Radio and Space / Time / Identity
Tim Wall and Nick Webber

Part II: Mobility, Sound and Communication
7. Labor, Machines, IVR Enabled Automated Call Centers, and the Design of an Audible Workplace
David McCarthy
8. Mobile Semiotics
Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien
9. Calling my Name: Sound, Orality and the Cell Phone Contact List
Heather A. Horst
10. What Is that Noise? An Analysis of Sound Quality and Music in Mobile Devices
Katie M. Lever-Mazzuto
11. Aural Armor: Charting the Militarization of the iPod in Operation Iraqi Freedom
J. Martin Daughtry

Part III: Devices That Listen (The Politics of Aurality)
12. Cochlear Implants after Fifty Years: An Interview with Charles Graser
Mara Mills
13. Music Ethnography and Recording Technology in the Unbound Digital Era
Anna Schultz and Mark Nye

Part IV: Children, Adolescents and Mobile Music Listening
14. Forever and Ever: Mobile Music in the Life of Young Teens
Arild Bergh, Tia DeNora, and Maia Bergh
15. Earbuds Are Good for Sharing: Children's Headphones as Social Media at a Vermont School
Tyler Bickford

Part V: Urban Ecologies and Politics
16. Can You Hear Us Now? Ringtones and Politics in the Contemporary Philippines
Jan M. Padios
17. Stereos in the City: Moving Through Music in South India
Sindhumathi Revuluri
18. Urban Echoes: The Boombox and Sonic Mobility in the 1980s
Joseph Schloss and Bill Bahng Boyer

Part VI: National Mobile Music Markets
19. Mexican Mobile Music: Una Convergencia con Sabor
Patrick Burkart and Christopher Joseph Westgate
20. Music Piracy, Commodities, and Value: Digital Media in the Indian Marketplace
Jayson Beaster-Jones
21. A Tale of Two Countries: Online Radio in the United States and Japan
Noriko Manabe
22. Mobile Tactics in the Brazilian Independent Music Industry
Kariann Goldschmitt

Table of Contents, Volume 2

1. The Mobilization of Performance: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Mobile Music
Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Stanyek

Part I: Frequency-Range Aesthetics
2. Treble Culture
Wayne Marshall
3. Of Sirens Old and New
Alexander Rehding

Part II: Sounding Transport
4. "Cars With the Boom": Music, Automobility, and Hip-hop "Sub" Cultures
Justin Williams
5. Ding, Ding!: The Commodity Aesthetic of Ice Cream Truck Music
Daniel T. Neely
6. There must be some relatIon beTween mushrOoms and trains: Alvin Curran's Boletus Edulis-Musica Pendolare
Benjamin Piekut

Part III: Walking and Bodily Choreography
7. Polyphonies of Footsteps
Frauke Behrendt
8. Soundwalking: Creating Moving Environmental Sound Narratives
Andra McCartney
9. Gestural Choreographies: Embodied Disciplines and Digital Media
Harmony Bench

Part IV: Dance and Dance Musics
10. (In)Visible Mediators: Urban Mobility, Interface Design, and the Disappearing Computer in Berlin-Based Laptop Performances
Mark J. Butler
11. Turning the Tables: Digital Technologies and the Remixing of DJ Culture
Christine Zanfagna and Kate Levitt
12. Dancing Silhouettes: The Mobile Freedom of iPod Commercials
Justin D. Burton

Part V: Popular Music Production
13. Music, Mobility, and Distributed Recording Production in Turkish Political Music
Eliot Bates
14. Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies
Alexander Weheliye

Part VI: Gaming Aesthetics
15. A History of Handheld and Mobile Video Game Sound
Karen Collins
16. The Chiptuning of the World: Game Boys, Imagined Travel, and Musical Meaning
Chris Tonelli
17. Rhythm Heaven: Video Games, Idols, and Other Experiences of Play
Miki Kaneda

Part VII: Mobile Music Instruments
18. The Mobile Phone Orchestra
Ge Wang, Georg Essl, and Henri Penttinen
19. Creative Applications of Interactive Mobile Music
Atau Tanaka
20. Music-Making and the iPhone: Notes From An Academic Entrepreneur
Ge Wang



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