On Record : Audio Recording, Mediation, and Citizenship in Newfoundland and L...
by Beverley Diamond
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On Record : Audio Recording, Mediation, and Citizenship in Newfoundland and Labrador, Paperback by Diamond, Beverley, ISBN 0228006554, ISBN-13 9780228006558, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Musical media and the audio recording industry have an important and complex history in Newfoundland and Labrador: professional musicians, community songwriters, local institutions, and even politicians have gone on record. The result is a widespread body of work that undercuts the idea of recorded music as a cultural commodity and deepens the province's tradition of cultural activism. Drawing on contemporary testimony and over fifty years of interviews, On Record explores how recording projects have served as sonic signatures, forms of protest, homage, or parody of the foibles of those in power. Beverley Diamond examines how audio recording in Newfoundland and Labrador has been shaped not merely by creative individuals, but by such events as resettlement, residential schools, the cod moratorium, technological change, and disasters that have befallen those who live and work on the North Atlantic. A chapter by ethnomusicologist and musician Mathias Kom examines the widespread response to a unique annual "challenge" to make an audio recording. Spanning both commercial and community-oriented initiatives, this book reflects the vibrant, socially engaged, and resilient nature of communities that value simultaneously and equally the highest professional standards and the creative potentia
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Year: 2021
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780228006558
- Condition: Fine
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