Modern Records, Maverick Methods

Technology and Process in Popular Music Record Production 1978-2000

By: Samantha Bennett

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Hardcover | 27 December 2018

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From the Fairlight CMI through MIDI to the digital audio workstations at the turn of the millennium, Modern Records, Maverick Methods examines a critical period in commercial popular music record production: the transformative digital age from the late 1970s until 2000.

Drawing on a discography of more than 300 recordings across pop, rock, hip hop, dance and alternative musics from artists such as the Beastie Boys, Madonna, U2 and Fatboy Slim, and extensive and exclusive ethnographic work with many world-renowned recordists, Modern Records presents a fresh and insightful new perspective on one of the most significant eras in commercial music record production.

The book traces the development of significant music technologies through the 1980s and 1990s, revealing how changing attitudes and innovative techniques of recording personnel reimagined recording processes and, finally, exemplifies the impact of these technologies and techniques via six comprehensive tech-processual analyses. This meticulously researched and timely book reveals the complexity of recordists' responses to a technological landscape in flux.

About the Author

Samantha Bennett is Associate Professor of Music at the Australian National University. She holds editorial roles with Perfect Beat (Equinox) and The Journal on the Art of Record Production. She is the author of the upcoming book Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (2018), part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, and co-editor of Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound (2017)

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In this deeply researched study of commercial popular music production in the 1980s and '90s, Samantha Bennett turns the digital vs. analog debate on its head, revealing the hybrid "maverick methodsâ ? recordists developed as they blended technologies and practices from both analog and digital domains in a rapidly changing studio environment. Rich in technical detail and musical analysis, the book nevertheless underscores the human element of record-making as recordists' choices and attitudes influenced the sound of the "modern recordsâ ? they produced.
Susan Schmidt Horning, Associate Professor of History, St. John's University, USA, and author of Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP (2013).

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