The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1 (Oxford Handbooks)

Sumanth Gopinath is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota and the author of The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form (2013). Forthcoming books include a monograph on music and dance in the Brazilian diaspora and a volume (co-edited with Fr

The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous. The volume's chapters investigate the MP3, copyright law and digital downloading, music and cloud computing, the iPod, the transistor radio, the automated call center, sound and text messaging, the mobile phone, th

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