CHAPTER ONE
Introduction: Ethnomusicology in the Twenty-first Century 1
René T. A. Lysloff and Leslie C. Gay, Jr.
CHAPTER TWO
Musical Life in Softcity: An Internet Ethnography 23
René T. A. Lysloff
CHAPTER THREE
A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery:
Transnational Music Sampling and Enigma’s “Return to Innocence” 64
Timothy D. Taylor
CHAPTER FOUR
“Ethnic Sounds”:
The Economy and Discourse of World Music Sampling 93
Paul Théberge
CHAPTER FIVE
Technology and the Production of Islamic Space:
The Call to Prayer in Singapore 109
Tong Soon Lee
CHAPTER SIX
Plugged in at Home:
Vietnamese American Technoculture in Orange County 125
Deborah Wong
CHAPTER SEVEN
Technology and Identity in Colombian Popular Music:
Tecno-macondismo in Carlos Vives’s Approach to Vallenato 153
Janet L. Sturman
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Nature/Technology Binary Opposition Dismantled
in the Music of Madonna and Björk 182
Charity Marsh and Melissa West
CHAPTER NINE
Before the Deluge: The Technoculture of Song-Sheet Publishing
Viewed from Late-Nineteenth-Century Galveston 204
Leslie G. Gay, Jr.
CHAPTER TEN
Stretched from Manhattan’s Back Alley to MOMA:
A Social History of Magnetic Tape and Recording 233
Matthew Malsky
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Tails Out: Social Phenomenology and
the Ethnographic Representation of Technology in Music Making 264
Thomas G. Porcello
CHAPTER TWELVE
“There’s not a problem I can’t fix, ’cause I can do it in the mix”:
On the Performative Technology of 12-Inch Vinyl 290
Kai Fikentscher
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Sounds Like the Mall of America:
Programmed Music and the Architectonics of Commercial Space 316
Jonathan Sterne
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Consuming Audio: An Introduction to Tweak Theory 346
Marc Perlman
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Fairly Used: Negativland’s U2 and
the Precarious Practice of Acoustic Appropriation 358
David Sanjek
Afterword: Back to Basics with the Roland 303 379
Andrew Ross