Contents

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Acknowledgments ix

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

List of Contributors 383

Index 387