MUSIC AND THE BROADCAST EXPERIENCE: PERFORMANCE, PRODUCTION AND AUDIENCES

摘要

A volume on music and broadcasting is always good news. Musicologist and media scholar Christina Baade and musicologist James Deaville edited this volume based on an idea that emerged at the conference Over the Waves: Music in/and Broadcasting (McMaster University, Ontario, 2005). This initial idea evolved into a project that took shape over several years to reach the present format. The volume consists of fourteen articles arranged in six thematic sections. One of the strengths of this edited collection is that the articles were mostly written by scholars from the areas of media and music studies. One of the editors' objectives was to develop interdisciplinary approaches and to encourage dialogue between researchers from these specific areas of studies who share an interest in music, but who do not often converse with each other. To achieve this outcome, the thematic sections are characterized by cross-disciplinary pairing. Also, in the introduction, the editors express the desire to develop points of contact between music studies on radio and television, and to explore the various aspects of music broadcasting in the Internet era. Aware of writing for an interdisciplinary audience, they also use the introduction to define key media and music terms (broadcasting; mass media; culture industry, etc.) to survey academic literature related to the fields of inquiry and to discuss the points of contact between different chapters. This turns the introduction into a dense text, but useful and relevant for both beginners and more experienced readers.