G4 Doctoral dissertation (monograph)
Äänitemoodi : äänite musiikillisessa kommunikaatiossa (2010)
Recording mode : recordings in musical communication

Heikkinen, O. (2010). Äänitemoodi : äänite musiikillisessa kommunikaatiossa [Doctoral dissertation]. Jyväskylän yliopisto. Jyväskylä studies in humanities, 133. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-3939-7

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Heikkinen, Olli

ISBN: 978-951-39-3805-5

eISBN: 978-951-39-3939-7

Journal or series: Jyväskylä studies in humanities

ISSN: 1459-4323

eISSN: 1459-4331

Publication year: 2010

Number in series: 133

Number of pages in the book: 149

Publisher: Jyväskylän yliopisto

Place of Publication: Jyväskylä

Publication country: Finland

Publication language: Finnish

Persistent website address: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-3939-7

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Abstract

The thesis consists of six previously published articles and an introduction. The topic of the research is the status of records in communication in popular music. The research approaches the topic analytically and tries to find new theoretical tools. Theory is illustrated with examples from the history of popular music. The main topic is the new means of meaning-making the technical development of record production has made possible to the actors in music. These means are covered by the term recording mode . The status of the popular music producers in meaning-making is being emphasized, although the possibilities of audiences in articulation of new meanings are also being studied. Resting on the genre and register theory of the systemic functional linguistics communication is being represented as a three-level model. Semiotic modes (note mode, lyrics mode, performance mode, recording mode, picture mode, star mode) form a basic level in which register and genre are realized. Register variations get institutionalized as genres in production and in consumption. On the other hand the institutionalized register variations of genres will be available for new meaning-making activity of new producers and audiences. This ongoing making and remaking of genres and registers is being described as the play of substantification and adjectification. The rise of recording mode has its effects on the ontology of music as well. In addition to score-based composer-made musical work, there has emerged a new kind of musical work, phonography-based and recordist-made. In popular music these phonography-based musical works are central.

Keywords: music research; sound recording (activity); music semiotics; modes (musical scales); communication; music; genres; popular music; schlager music; audio recordings; mixing (sound)

Free keywords: recordings; phonography; recording mode; genre; register; popular music; communication

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