Devine, Kyle - Audible Infrastructures

Audible Infrastructures reveals the material, environmental, and economic conditions that underlie the production and consumption of music. In showing how central natural resources, power grids, and transportation are to music, this book boldly reshapes how we understand musical cultures and their place in society.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Section I: Introductions and Orientations
Chapter 1: Making Infrastructures Audible: An Introduction
Kyle Devine and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Chapter 2: Rivers, Gatherings, and Infrastructures
Will Straw
Chapter 3: Making Music, Building Roads: A Reflection on Sound, Materiality, and Social Transformation
Penny Harvey
Section II: Resources and Production
Chapter 4: Glittery: Unearthed Histories of Music, Mica, and Work
Alejandra Bronfman
Chapter 5: Timber to Timbre: Fiji Mahogany Plantations and Gibson Guitars
Jose E. Martinez-Reyes
Chapter 6: The Infrastructure and Environmental Consequences of Live Music
Matt Brennan
Section III: Circulation and Transmission
Chapter 7: Street Net and Electronic Music in Cuba
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Chapter 8: Sonopolis: Activist Infrastructures and Sonic Citizenship in Athens
Tom Western
Chapter 9: Shadows of Black and White: Materialities and Medialities in May Irwin's Frog Song
Leslie C. Gay, Jr.
Section IV: Failure and Waste
Chapter 10: Another Side of Shellac: Cultural and Natural Cycles of the Gramophone Disc
Elodie A. Roy
Chapter 11: The Sounds of Zombie Media: Waste and the Sustainable Afterlives of Repurposed Technologies
Lauren Flood
Chapter 12: Electronic Music and the Problem of Electricity
Gavin Steingo
Index

Series	Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound