The ringtone dialectic economy and cultural form
A decade ago, the customizable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalized ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry and almost as quickly faded away. In The Ringtone Dialectic,...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter :I. Rise and Fall of the Ringtone Economy
- Chapter :1. This Business of Ringtones: The Unstable Value Chain and Accumulation of Capital by Rent in the Global Ringtone Industry
- Chapter :II. Ramifications of the Ringtone's Identity Crisis: The Social and Cultural Fallout of Technological Transformation
- Chapter :2. Ringtones and the Deskilling of Mobile-Musical Labor: A Preliminary Investigation
- Chapter :3. Left Behind: Case Studies of Decline and Recapitulation in the Ringtone as Representation
- Chapter :4. Ringtone and Its Aesthetic Subgenres in Contemporary Classical Music and Media Performance/Installation Art
- Chapter :III. Ringtone's Dialectical Reversals
- Chapter :5. Annoying Thing: Crazy Frog and the Strange Career of a Sample
- Chapter :6. Voice of the Politician and the Geographic Dispersion of the Political Ringtone
- Chapter :7. Spectrum of Forms: The Aesthetic Logic of Original Sound-File Ringtone Composition
- Chapter :IV. Revivals and the (Universal) Particularization of the Ringtone
- Chapter :8. Personalization and Spectatorship: The Ringtone's Narrative Functions in Cinematic and Televisual Media
- Chapter :9. What's in a Name? Race and the Ringtone's Revival in (Un-)Popular Music
- Epilogue