Аннотация:The impact of digitization on popular music has been profound, and it has indelibly shaped how we now hear most, if not all, contemporary popular music. In terms of scholarly discussion, we are most often left to consider it in terms of how it circulates and how it is consumed. There have been any number of articles and books that deal with the many issues that digitization has raised, from the decline of brick-and-mortar record shops, copyright infringement, the everyday use of mp3 players, streaming services, and new business models, to more mundane questions about the differences in sonic fidelity afforded analog versus digital reproduction. By contrast, the impact of digitization on the production side of the equation has been much less scrutinized. In Digital Signatures, Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen and Anne Danielsen have provided us with a welcome addition to an otherwise underserved area well in need of more robust theorization and analysis. In this highly accessible and engaging volume, the authors offer an insightful overview of some of the main issues digitization presents for production, and combine this with a number of richly rewarding case studies, of the sort that would appeal to musicologists, nonmusicologists, sociologists, cultural historians, and historians of technology alike.
