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Technological Innovations in Contemporary Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Pierre-Michel Menger
Pierre-Michel Menger*
Affiliation:
Centre de Sociologie des Arts (CNRS EHESS), Paris
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The subject of my paper is the use of new technologies in serious musical creation. Although I cannot develop the comparison with popular music and its mass market, one will understand implicitly the importance of the fact that ‘all of my story’ is set within the institutions and environment located on the edge of the market. My aim is not to show why diverse technologies that have appeared in the last 40 years have been exploited by composers, but rather how innovations such as electroacoustic and computer music were able to ‘succeed’. I employ the word ‘success’ in the organizational sense: it is the lasting formation of new segments of musical creation and the mobilization of composers, of partners from the scientific world, and of the technical and financial resources for establishing these new segments.

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Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 114 , Issue 1 , 1989 , pp. 92 - 101
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Copyright © 1989 Royal Musical Association

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