| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Strange Sounds: Music, Technology, & Culture. By Timothy D. Taylor. (New York: Routledge, 2001. x, 278 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-415-93683-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-415-93684-5.)

Timothy D. Taylor opens his engaging analysis of the effects of digital technology on contemporary music by asserting that we inhabit an inescapably altered universe. He states, "The advent of digital technology in the early 1980s marks the beginning of what may be the most fundamental change in the history of Western music since the invention of music notation in the ninth century" (p. 3). The means by which we produce, store, and distribute, as well as consume, music no longer are dictated by some form of hard object. Instead, sound itself can be bought, moved about, and, most important, transformed at the whim of any individual. This erodes the line that once neatly separated producers from consumers. Since those with the necessary tools can easily remix the work of others, the hierarchical relationship between creators and their fans has become potentially democratized.

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