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The Ringtone Dialectic : Economy and Cultural Form /

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the customisable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalised ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry - and almost as quickly fa...

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Autor principal: Gopinath, Sumanth S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The Rise and Fall of the Ringtone Economy. This Business of Ringtones : The Unstable Value Chain and Accumulation of Capital by Rent in the Global Ringtone Industry -- Ramifications of the Ringtone's Identity Crisis : The Social and Cultural Fallout of Technological Transformation. Ringtones and the Deskilling of Mobile-Musical Labor : A Preliminary Investigation ; Left Behind : Case Studies of Decline and Recapitulation in the Ringtone as Representation ; The Ringtone and Its Aesthetic Subgenres in Contemporary Classical Music and Media Performance/Installation Art -- The Ringtone's Dialectical Reversals. The Annoying Thing : Crazy Frog and the Strange Career of a Sample ; The Voice of the Politician and the Geographic Dispersion of the Political Ringtone ; A Spectrum of Forms : The Aesthetic Logic of Original Sound-File Ringtone Composition -- Revivals and the (Universal) Particularization of the Ringtone. Personalization and Spectatorship : The Ringtone's Narrative Functions in Cinematic and Televisual Media ; What's in a Name? Race and the Ringtone's Revival in (Un- )Popular Music -- Epilogue. 
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