Ebook: How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts

All recordings document life, arising from a specific time and place, and if that place is artificial, the results will be as well. Culled from a lifetime of learning through failure and designed to provoke thought and inspiration for artists in every medium, How Music Dies (or Lives) is a virtual how-to manual for those on a quest for authenticity in an age of airbrushed and Auto-Tuned so-called #x93;artists." Author and Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan chronicles his own journeys to find new and ancient sounds, textured voices, and nonmalleable songs, and he presents readers with an intricate.;Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface: Proximity Bias and the Irrationality of Fear; Introduction: Learning Through Failure; Section I: The Value of Democratizing Voices; 1. We Aren't the World: All Music Is "Local Music"; 2. The Fixation to Fixate; 3. Message Monopolization; Field Recording Chronicle: Malawi; 4. The Real King(s) of Rock 'n' Roll; Field Recording Chronicle: Malawi; 5. Unlabelling Labels; Field Recording Chronicle: Rwanda; 6. Regressive Superlatives: The "G"-Word ... and Other Demons; Field Recording Chronicle: Zomba Prison.