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Processes of learning in the project studio (2016)
Book Chapter
Slater, M. (2016). Processes of learning in the project studio. In A. King, & E. Himonides (Eds.), Music, Technology, and Education : Critical Perspectives (9-26). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596945

The emergence of the project studio is a story of increasing access to ever more powerful technologies that allow music to be produced in increasingly diverse circumstances. In 1973 Melody Maker responded, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, to an emerging tre... Read More about Processes of learning in the project studio.

Studio pedagogy: Perspectives from record producers (2016)
Book Chapter
King, A. (2016). Studio pedagogy: Perspectives from record producers. In A. King, & E. Himonides (Eds.), Music, technology, and education: critical perspectives (45-66). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596945-13

This chapter considers how educators can develop principles of music production in a digital age. It focuses upon the practices used in the audio industry from both an analogue and digital perspective. Three renowned music producers were interviewed... Read More about Studio pedagogy: Perspectives from record producers.

Bring that Beat Back: Sampling as Virtual Collaboration (2016)
Book Chapter
Oliver, R. (2016). Bring that Beat Back: Sampling as Virtual Collaboration. In S. Whiteley, & S. Rambarran (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality (65-80). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199321285.013.11

This chapter focuses on music technology and production techniques that predate the Internet but have contemporary relevance. The role of digital sampling in the development of hip hop, and other subsequent genres based around use of “breakbeats,” is... Read More about Bring that Beat Back: Sampling as Virtual Collaboration.

Breakbeat syncretism: The drum sample in African American popular music (2015)
Book Chapter
Oliver, R. (2015). Breakbeat syncretism: The drum sample in African American popular music. In J. Metcalf, & C. Spaulding (Eds.), African American Culture and Society After Rodney King: Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism' (177-192). Abingdon, Oxon: Ashgate

Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities (2015)
Book Chapter
King, A. (2015). Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities. In Activating Diverse Musical Creativities (203-222). London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474220316.ch-011

Burnard’s seminal work, Musical Creativities in Practice, has begun to change the way creativity is viewed in music (2012) . In this work Burnard rejects the view of a single concept of creativity that encompasses all aspects of music and instead pro... Read More about Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities.

Heuristics for expressive performance (2014)
Book Chapter
Prior, H., & Leech-Wilkinson, D. (2014). Heuristics for expressive performance. In R. Timmers, D. Fabian, & E. Schubert (Eds.), Expressiveness in musical performance: Empirical approaches across styles and cultures. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199659647.003.0003

This chapter discusses concepts and terms that professional musicians find useful in preparing for and talking and thinking about expressive performance. An example is “shape,” which, as recent research has shown, is immensely flexible and useful for... Read More about Heuristics for expressive performance.

Performance (2014)
Book Chapter
King, E. (2014). Performance. In Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An encyclopedia. SAGE Publications

Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening (2013)
Book Chapter
Prior, H. (2013). Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening. In E. King, & H. M. Prior (Eds.), Music and familiarity: listening, musicology and performance. Routledge

The origins of this work, as in much research, lie in a personal experience. My first exposure to a selection of Schoenberg’s piano works (which happened to be through a recording) had resulted in an ambivalent response, but upon hearing the same rec... Read More about Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening.

Groove as Familiarity with Time (2013)
Book Chapter
Oliver, R. (2013). Groove as Familiarity with Time. In E. King, & H. M. Prior (Eds.), Music and Familiarity : Listening, Musicology and Performance (239 - 252). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596600

The chapter explores the instrumentalist’s relationship with musical time, arguing that the capacity for groove in solo performance depends upon the musician’s familiarity with stylistically nuanced conceptions of pulse. Much research dealing with gr... Read More about Groove as Familiarity with Time.

Social familiarity: styles of interaction in chamber ensemble rehearsal (2013)
Book Chapter
King, E. (2013). Social familiarity: styles of interaction in chamber ensemble rehearsal. Music and familiarity: listening, musicology and performance (253 - 270). Ashgate

When two or more musicians first play together in a music ensemble, they begin a process of familiarization as they get to know each other both musically and socially. There is a complex network of issues to consider in this process as ensemble music... Read More about Social familiarity: styles of interaction in chamber ensemble rehearsal.

The Student Prince: Music-making with technology (2012)
Book Chapter
King, A. (2012). The Student Prince: Music-making with technology. In G. E. McPherson, & G. F. Welch (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Education (476 - 491). Hull: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199928019.013.0031

This article examines recording studio practice in education. It begins by tracing the historical background of music-making with technology and providing an overview of how technology is used in the music curriculum. It then discusses the key relati... Read More about The Student Prince: Music-making with technology.

Gestures and glances: interactions in ensemble rehearsal (2011)
Book Chapter
Ginsborg, J., & King, E. (2011). Gestures and glances: interactions in ensemble rehearsal. In A. Gritten, & E. King (Eds.), New perspectives on music and gesture (177-202). Farnham: Ashgate

Performers use physical gestures in numerous ways. They can be used to communicate musical expression, generate sound production, facilitate technical movements while playing or singing, regulate temporal aspects of performance, and provide musical a... Read More about Gestures and glances: interactions in ensemble rehearsal.

Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e (2011)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2011). Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e. In T. Shephard, & A. Leonard (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture (120-126). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203629987

The word ukiyo-e comes from a combination of “Ukiyo” , which means “floating world,” and “e” , which means picture or image. So, ukiyo-e offer both a description of the world of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—in particular the pleasures, foods, daily life,... Read More about Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e.

The development of film musicology: an overview (2009)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2009). The development of film musicology: an overview. Sound and music in film and visual media : an overview (725 - 738). Continuum

Surveys some of the contributions to film music scholarship by musicologists who have, in the process, absorbed film music into the realm of traditional musicology.Among the scholars mentioned are David Neumeyer, James Buhler, Claudia Gorbman, Roy Pr... Read More about The development of film musicology: an overview.

Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema (2009)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2009). Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema. Sound and music in film and visual media: an overview (375 - 387). Continuum

Explores the ways in which classical Hollywood cinema used music, among other components, to encode the presence and aura of women and, in so doing, perpetuated entrenched models of female sexuality.Examples are provided from David Lean's 1945 film B... Read More about Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema.

Desiring the diegesis: music and self-seduction in the films of Wong Kar Wai (2008)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2008). Desiring the diegesis: music and self-seduction in the films of Wong Kar Wai. CineMusic?: constructing the film score (127 - 140). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Examines Hong Kong art cinema, especially the work of film director Wong Kar-Wai, as a means of illustrating a use of music in film that puts a strain on the distinctions between diegetic music and its authoritative other, the non-diegetic, which hav... Read More about Desiring the diegesis: music and self-seduction in the films of Wong Kar Wai.