The Social Life of Sound

Download or read book The Social Life of Sound written by Sophia Maalsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Life of Sounds argues for the agency of sounds and music and the acceleration of their social lives in the Digital Age. Drawing upon research with composers, producers, record collectors, DJs and record labels, the book problematises the notion of artistic authorship as it is framed in Western systems of property. Acknowledging that ‘things’ – sounds, samples, and recorded music – and people are co-constituted and that personhood is distributed through things and their reuse, Maalsen makes a case for understanding sound as multibiographical and challenges the possessive individual that is the basis of artistic copyright.