Byrd Mcdaniel
Biographic Data
| ID | 683141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Byrd Mcdaniel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Byrd |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdaniel |
| SIGNATURE | MCDANIEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6413-9114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
All Songs Considered: The Persuasive Listening of Music Podcasts
Music podcasts have proliferated as public discourse about popular music. A significant part of the expanding podcast industry, music podcasts include titles such as All Songs Considered , Switched on Pop , Song Exploder , Sound Opinions , New York Times Popcast , and Lost Notes . These podcasts often feature a combination of conversation and musical selections, which highlight aspects of the music for podcast listeners. In this article, I argue …
Popular music reaction videos: Reactivity, creator labor, and the performance of listening online
In popular music reaction videos, performers on YouTube—called “creators”—record their reactions to popular music, filming themselves as they listen to music recordings and watch music videos. The profitability and appeal of popular music reaction videos can be explained by a quality I call reactivity. Reactivity describes the approach that creators take to listening, as they heighten and exaggerate their affective experience of music media. Reac…
Air Apparent: Amplifying the History of Air Guitar, Air Bands, and Air Playing in the Twentieth Century
I present a history of air playing, air guitar, and air bands in the United States. Demonstrating how gestural listening practices developed into distinctive performance genres in the late twentieth century, I argue air playing organized and advanced an interactive approach to media consumption that pervades contemporary media sensibilities. This history of air playing reveals how music consumers sought ways to treat listening as something dramat…
Out of Thin Air: Configurability, Choreography, and the Air Guitar World Championships
In annual air guitar competitions, performers choreograph routines that simulate and exaggerate gestures needed to play "real" guitar. Before competitions, they edit and alter popular music to facilitate routines. Based on fieldwork at local and national competitions in the United States and the international competition in Finland, my research demonstrates connections between remix aesthetics offstage and choreographies onstage, where competitor…
Popular music reaction videos: Reactivity, creator labor, and the performance of listening online
In popular music reaction videos, performers on YouTube—called “creators”—record their reactions to popular music, filming themselves as they listen to music recordings and watch music videos. The profitability and appeal of popular music reaction videos can be explained by a quality I call reactivity. Reactivity describes the approach that creators take to listening, as they heighten and exaggerate their affective experience of music media. Reac…
Out of Thin Air: Configurability, Choreography, and the Air Guitar World Championships
In annual air guitar competitions, performers choreograph routines that simulate and exaggerate gestures needed to play "real" guitar. Before competitions, they edit and alter popular music to facilitate routines. Based on fieldwork at local and national competitions in the United States and the international competition in Finland, my research demonstrates connections between remix aesthetics offstage and choreographies onstage, where competitor…
Out of Thin Air: Configurability, Choreography, and the Air Guitar World Championships
In annual air guitar competitions, performers choreograph routines that simulate and exaggerate gestures needed to play "real" guitar. Before competitions, they edit and alter popular music to facilitate routines. Based on fieldwork at local and national competitions in the United States and the international competition in Finland, my research demonstrates connections between remix aesthetics offstage and choreographies onstage, where competitor…
Air Apparent: Amplifying the History of Air Guitar, Air Bands, and Air Playing in the Twentieth Century
I present a history of air playing, air guitar, and air bands in the United States. Demonstrating how gestural listening practices developed into distinctive performance genres in the late twentieth century, I argue air playing organized and advanced an interactive approach to media consumption that pervades contemporary media sensibilities. This history of air playing reveals how music consumers sought ways to treat listening as something dramat…
Popular music reaction videos: Reactivity, creator labor, and the performance of listening online
In popular music reaction videos, performers on YouTube—called “creators”—record their reactions to popular music, filming themselves as they listen to music recordings and watch music videos. The profitability and appeal of popular music reaction videos can be explained by a quality I call reactivity. Reactivity describes the approach that creators take to listening, as they heighten and exaggerate their affective experience of music media. Reac…
All Songs Considered: The Persuasive Listening of Music Podcasts
Music podcasts have proliferated as public discourse about popular music. A significant part of the expanding podcast industry, music podcasts include titles such as All Songs Considered , Switched on Pop , Song Exploder , Sound Opinions , New York Times Popcast , and Lost Notes . These podcasts often feature a combination of conversation and musical selections, which highlight aspects of the music for podcast listeners. In this article, I argue …
Art (4 works) · Active listening (3 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Communication (2 works)