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How Has Recording Technology Changed How People Experience Music?
Susan McClary
Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Best known for her book, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (U. Minnesota Press, 1991), she is a specialist in the cultural criticism and critical theory of music, especially in the European and Western popular canons. She has written widely on subjects like feminism, narrativity and gender issues as expressed in the European music tradition, and is an avid pianist and harpsichordist. |
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Description: Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, discusses the experience of music in the pre-recording era when someone might hear a Beethoven symphony once or twice in their lives, to the experience available to people today, where music from any century or any quarter of the globe can be heard at will. She also points out some less-desired effects of recording on music, for example, creating "definitive" performances that might discourage players from being as daring, or as relaxed, as they otherwise might be when interpreting a piece.
Shoot Date: November 2007 |
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