TY - BOOK AU - Ashby,Arved Mark TI - Absolute music, mechanical reproduction SN - 9780520264793 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - ML 3854 .A84 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Gould, Glenn KW - Schnabel, Artur, KW - Absolute music KW - Sound recordings KW - Social aspects KW - Music KW - Philosophy and aesthetics KW - Performance practice (Music) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Music and technology KW - Sound KW - Recording and reproducing KW - Digital techniques KW - MP3 (Audio coding standard) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p.299-308) and index; The recorded musical text -- Recording, repetition, and memory in absolute music -- Schnabel's rationalism, Gould's pragmatism -- Digital mythologies -- Beethoven and the iPod Nation -- Photo/phono/porno -- Mahler as imagist ER -