Has the virtual invaded the realm of the real, or has the real expanded its definition to include what once was characterized as virtual? With the continual evolution of digital technology, this distinction grows increasingly hazy. But perhaps the distinction has become obsolete; perhaps it is
time to pay attention to the intersections, mutations, and transmigrations of the virtual and the real. Certainly it is time to reinterpret the practice and study of music. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality, edited by Sheila Whiteley and Shara Rambarran, is the first book to offer a
kaleidoscope of interdisciplinary perspectives from scholars around the globe on the way in which virtuality mediates the dissemination, acquisition, performance, creation, and reimagining of music.
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality addresses eight themes that often overlap and
interact with one another. Questions of the role of the audience, artistic agency, individual and communal identity, subjectivity, and spatiality repeatedly arise. Authors specifically explore phenomena including holographic musicians and virtual bands, and the benefits and detriments surrounding
the free circulation of music on the internet. In addition, the book investigates the way in which fans and musicians negotiate gender identities as well as the dynamics of audience participation and community building in a virtual environment. The handbook rehistoricizes the virtual by tracing its
progression from cartoons in the 1950s to current industry innovations and changes in practice. Well-grounded and wide-reaching, this is a book that students of any number of disciplines, from Music to Cultural Studies, have awaited.
List of Figures and Tables
Companion Website and List of Musical Examples
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Andy Bennett: Preface
Sheila Whiteley: Introduction
PART 1 The Pre-Digital Virtual
Introduction
1. Christian Lloyd: In Seventeenth Heaven: Virtual
Listening and its Discontents
2. Philip Auslander and Ian Inglis: Nothing is Real: The Beatles as Virtual Performers
3. Sheila Whiteley: Tom, Jerry and the Virtual Virtuoso
4. Rowan Oliver: Bring that Beat Back: Sampling as Virtual Collaboration
5. Paul Carr: An Analysis of
Virtuality in the Creation and Reception of the Music and Persona of Frank Zappa
PART 2 Vocaloids, Holograms and Virtual Pop Stars
Introduction
6. Louise H. Jackson and Mike Dines: Vocaloids and Japanese Virtual Vocal Performance: The Cultural Heritage and Technological Futures of
Vocal Puppetry
7. Rafal Zabrowoski: Hatsune Miku and Japanese Virtual Idols
8. Thomas Conner: Hatsune Miku, 2.0Pac and Beyond: Rewinding and Fast-Forwarding the Virtual Pop Star
9. Shara Rambarran: "Feel Good" with Gorillaz and "Reject False Icons": The Fantasy Worlds of the Virtual
Group and their Creators
PART 3 Second Life
Introduction
10. Trevor S. Harvey: Avatar Rockstars: Constructing Musical Personae in Virtual Worlds
11. Justin Gagen and Nicholas Cook: Performing Live in Second Life
12. Marco Antonio Chavez-Aguayo: Live Opera Performance in
Second Life: Challenging Producers, Performers and the Audience
PART 4 Authorship, Creativity and Musicianship
Introduction
13. Alon Ilsar and Charles Fairchild: We Are, The Colors: Collaborative Narration and the Experimental Construction of a Non-Existent Band
14. Paul
Draper and Frank Millward: Music in Perpetual Beta: Composition, Remediation, and 'Closure'
15. Ragnhild Bròvig-Hanssen: Justin Bieber Featuring Slipknot: Consumption as Mode of Production
16. Cora S. Palfy: Human After All: Understanding Negotiations of Artistic Identity through the Music
of Daft Punk
17. David Tough: Virtual Bands: Recording Music Under the Big Top
PART 5 Communities and the World-Wide-Web
Introduction
18. Shzr Ee Tan: "Uploading" to Carnegie Hall: The First YouTube Symphony Orchestra
19. Samantha Bennet: The Listener as Remixer: Mix Stems
in Online Fan Community and Competition Contexts
20. Benjamin O'Brien: Sample Sharing: Virtual Laptop Ensemble Communities
21. David Pattie: Stone Tapes: Ghost Box, Nostalgia, and Post-War England
22. Adam Trainer: Hypnagogia, Hauntology, Chillwave: Post-Ironic Musical Renderings of
Personal Memory
23. Danijela Bogdanovic: Bands in Virtual Spaces, Social Networking and Masculinity
PART 6 Sonic Environments and Musical Experience
Introduction
24. Thomas Brett: From Environmental Sound To Virtual Environment Enhancing: Consuming Ambiance as Listening
Practice
25. Jeremy Wade Morris: App Music
26. Juho Kaitajervi-Tiekso: Alternative Virtuality. Independent Micro Labels Facing the Ideological Challenge of Virtual Music Culture: The Case of Finnish Ektro Records
27. Michael Audette-Longo: Everybody Knows There is Here: Surveying the
Indexi-Local in CBC Radio 3
28. Benjamin Halligan: Mind Usurps Program: Virtuality and the "New Machine Aesthetic" of Electronic Dance Music
PART 7 Participatory Culture and Fundraising
Introduction
29. Mark Thorley: Virtual Music, Virtual Money: The Impact of Crowdfunding
Models on Creativity, Authorship and Identity
30. Francesco D'Amato: With a Little Help From My Friends, Family and Fans. DIY, Participatory Culture and Social Capital in Music Crowdfunding
31. Justin Williams and Ross Wilson: Music and Crowdfunded Websites: Digital Patronage and Artist-Fan
Interactivity
PART 8 Authors' Blog: Final Thoughts on Music and VirtualityPaul Carr:
PART 9 GlossaryShara Rambarran:
Index
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The late Sheila Whiteley was Professor Emeritus (the University of Salford, UK) and a Research Fellow at the Bader International Study Centre, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada. She is author of Too Much Too Young: Popular Music, Age and Identity (2005). Shara Rambarran is an Assistant
Professor of Music and Cultural Studies at the Bader International Study Centre, Queen's University, Canada. Shara gained her PhD in Music and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford.
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