Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Causes 2. Making America More Musical: The Phonograph and "Good Music" 3. Capturing Jazz 4. Aesthetics out of Exigency: Violin Vibrato and the Phonograph 5. The Rise and Fall of Grammophonmusik 6. The Turntable as Weapon: Understanding the DJ Battle 7. Music in 1s and 0s: The Art and Politics of Digital Sampling 8. Listening in Cyberspace Conclusion Notes References CD Tracks Index

About the Author

Mark Katz is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reviews

"I only wish I had put as much thought into making records as Mark Katz does in appreciating and analyzing them. I've always said that what I do is not rocket science but critiques like this make it sound like it has a place in modern culture." - Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, composer, producer, DJ; "Katz provides a model of how studies of music and technology should be done." - Tim Taylor, author of Global Pop"