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A Sociology of Sound Technicians

Part of the Musik und Gesellschaft Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-33029-3

ISBN: 978-3-658-33028-6

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden - Springer Journals

Jul 24, 2021

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Technical Intermediaries and the Agency of Objects: Questioning Generalized Symmetry

Battentier, Andy

Pages: 1 –22

[Studies about the role of objects in cultural production tend to frame objects as active actors. This approach tends to obliterate the role taken by technical intermediaries, which is to transform matter into meaningful objects. Empirical accounts encourage to place the emphasis on human work...
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A Comparative Approach to Making a Living From Sound Engineering

Battentier, Andy

Pages: 23 –40

[Sound technicians are often employed as freelancers. France and The Netherlands provide quite different level of social security for them, especially when it comes to health and unemployment insurance. The French system constitutes an answer to the “cost disease” described by Baumol and Bowen,...
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Creative Craft in Music: Careers and Roles of Sound Technicians

Battentier, Andy

Pages: 41 –68

[Most technicians have a career structured in constellations: they start from first experiences that may vary in nature, such as working in music and television, and evolve within the art worlds in which they set foot. They can also move from one art world to another thanks to transferable skills...
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The Power of Sound Technicians over the Script: Negotiations around the Shape of the Performance’s Object

Battentier, Andy

Pages: 69 –92

[This chapter analyzes how sound technicians can influence the meaning of a performance. This influence can be differentiated according to Jennifer Lena’s reshaped notion of music genre, which account both for aesthetic and social parameters. Technicians act differently if the performance’s genre...
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Group Engagement of Technicians and Audiences in Concerts

Battentier, Andy

Pages: 93 –116

[From one day to another, public presentations of the same show, performed with the same people, can have very different results. For instance, if a band plays two days in a row in the same town during a tour, one night can be dull and the other marked by a very intense collective emotional...

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