Sumanth Gopinath
Biographic Data
| ID | 369807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sumanth Gopinath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sumanth |
| FAMILY NAME | Gopinath |
| SIGNATURE | GOPINATH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking Reich
Chasing Sound
Reviewed by: Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP by Susan Schmidt Horning Sumanth Gopinath (bio) Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP. By Susan Schmidt Horning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+292. $45. This fine contribution to recording studies focuses on U.S.-based engineers and studio personnel from mechanical re…
New media
Can You Hear Us Now? Ringtones and Politics in the Contemporary Philippines
The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 2
The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1
The ringtone dialectic
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, Sumanth Gopinath charts the rise and fall of the ringtone economy and assesses its effect on cultural production. Gopinath describes the technical and…
The Voice of the Politician and the Geographic Dispersion of the Political Ringtone
This chapter looks at the dramatic successes and false starts in social movements' political utilization of the ringtone. It highlights the use of political ringtones to support or criticise politicians, and examples of where the sound file format has been used effectively for political mobilization. Often remixed, these ringtones draw on the recorded voices of politicians, speaking covertly or indiscreetly, and include verbal outbursts which exp…
Terry Riley’s In C
Book Review| November 01 2011 Terry Riley’s In C. Terry Riley’s In C.. By Robert Carl. Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532528-7. Hardcover. Pp. xiii, 146. $45.00. Sumanth Gopinath Sumanth Gopinath Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2011) 29 (3): 388–391. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.29.3.0388 Cite Icon Cite Share …
Ringtones, or the auditory logic of globalization
This essay attempts to provide a description of the global ringtone industry, to determine and assess the numerous cultural consequences of the ringtone’s appearance and development, and to situate the ringtone within the context of contemporary capitalism. At its broadest, my assertion is that the development of the ringtone is a powerful lens through which we might clearly view some of the dynamics of present day (or “late”) capitalist cultural…
Ringtones, or the auditory logic of globalization
This essay attempts to provide a description of the global ringtone industry, to determine and assess the numerous cultural consequences of the ringtone’s appearance and development, and to situate the ringtone within the context of contemporary capitalism. At its broadest, my assertion is that the development of the ringtone is a powerful lens through which we might clearly view some of the dynamics of present day (or “late”) capitalist cultural…
Terry Riley’s In C
Book Review| November 01 2011 Terry Riley’s In C. Terry Riley’s In C.. By Robert Carl. Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532528-7. Hardcover. Pp. xiii, 146. $45.00. Sumanth Gopinath Sumanth Gopinath Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2011) 29 (3): 388–391. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.29.3.0388 Cite Icon Cite Share …
The ringtone dialectic
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, Sumanth Gopinath charts the rise and fall of the ringtone economy and assesses its effect on cultural production. Gopinath describes the technical and…
The Voice of the Politician and the Geographic Dispersion of the Political Ringtone
This chapter looks at the dramatic successes and false starts in social movements' political utilization of the ringtone. It highlights the use of political ringtones to support or criticise politicians, and examples of where the sound file format has been used effectively for political mobilization. Often remixed, these ringtones draw on the recorded voices of politicians, speaking covertly or indiscreetly, and include verbal outbursts which exp…
New media
Can You Hear Us Now? Ringtones and Politics in the Contemporary Philippines
The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 2
The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1
Chasing Sound
Reviewed by: Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP by Susan Schmidt Horning Sumanth Gopinath (bio) Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP. By Susan Schmidt Horning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+292. $45. This fine contribution to recording studies focuses on U.S.-based engineers and studio personnel from mechanical re…
Rethinking Reich
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