Repeated Takes, A Short History of Recording and its effect on Music Verso, 1995 “Until the development of the radio and the gramophone, people only heard music when they played it themselves or when they heard other people playing it. … Continue reading
Musica Practica: The Social Practice of Western from Gregorian Chant to Postmodernism, Verso, 1996 The idea of writing a history of music spanning around 1,000 years might seem highly impractical, but Michael Chanan has attempted just that. He is not … Continue reading
From Handel to Hendrix, The Composer in the Public Sphere Verso, 1999 A study of the composer as a public figure in the light of Habermas’s study of the transformation of the public sphere, taking its cue from the German … Continue reading