Emotional Signals

Auto-Tune, Melodyne, and the Cultural Politics of Pitch Correction

By Catherine Provenzano

Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop
Paperback : 9780472058808, 262 pages, 14 images, 6 x 9, August 2027
Hardcover : 9780472078806, 262 pages, 14 images, 6 x 9, August 2027
Open Access : 9780472907502, 262 pages, 14 images, 6 x 9, August 2027
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14416049
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Table of Contents

Table of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Emotional Signals
Chapter 1: Anxious Listening and Real-Time Sociality: Studio Temperament and Tempered Pitch
Chapter 2: What’s Real? Auto-Tune’s Material World
Chapter 3: What’s Good? Melodyne’s Nature
Chapter 4: Emo Rap, Auto-Tune, and Emotional Empire
Chapter 5: The Geography of Demonic Work
Conclusion: Over the Rainbow, Somewhere
Bibliography
Index

Description

An ethnographic account of the history, development, and cultural impacts of digital tuning software

Catherine Provenzano is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles Herb Alpert School of Music.

"Provenzano provides unique critical insights as she weaves together literature from a variety of disciplines including studies in sound, voice, popular music, and software."

- Mike D'Errico, Albright College
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