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Book Review
Dec. 4th, 2020 12:12 pmThe Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music
edited by Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, John Rink
This collection covers a very wide range of topics related to music recordings: the experience of being in the studio, the history of recording technology, how recordings are studied and discussed, technical and technological aspects of recordings and how they are made, and the effect of recordings on music making and listening. Throughout the volume, the material was fascinating and the writing engaging. It contained the right balance of detailed information without getting too technical or caught up in minutiae. I particularly liked the shorter personal takes that came between the main chapters, as they were often very focused and subjective reflections on small slices of the subject matter.
edited by Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, John Rink
This collection covers a very wide range of topics related to music recordings: the experience of being in the studio, the history of recording technology, how recordings are studied and discussed, technical and technological aspects of recordings and how they are made, and the effect of recordings on music making and listening. Throughout the volume, the material was fascinating and the writing engaging. It contained the right balance of detailed information without getting too technical or caught up in minutiae. I particularly liked the shorter personal takes that came between the main chapters, as they were often very focused and subjective reflections on small slices of the subject matter.
