Dirty little secrets. Secret weapons. Trade secrets. Phrases so ubiquitous in music and audio technology culture that, in the twenty-first century, they serve as powerful mechanisms in the production and consumption of music and audio technologies and skillsets. Secrets and revelatory discourse serves to historicize, imagine and commodify skillsets whilst amplifying technological fetishisation. Grounded in historical and psychology scholarship, this book examines secrets and revelation as part of a continuum of the protection of tacit knowledge. Packed with examples and qualitative data drawn from trade shows, online fora, industry associations, retail, textbooks, and education, this large-scale study elucidates the mechanism of secret holders, secrets, revelation and listeners as being intrinsic to music and audio technology cultures. The results of this research illustrate how, in the potent distillation of music and audio technology knowledge and skillsets into commodified secrets, little to nothing is revealed.
| ISBN: | 9781009661805 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 2026 |
| Author: | Samantha Bennett |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 75 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Elements. Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice |
| Genres: |
Espionage and secret services Acoustic and sound engineering Music recording and reproduction |
Dirty little secrets. Secret weapons. Trade secrets. Phrases so ubiquitous in music and audio technology culture that, in the twenty-first century, they serve as powerful mechanisms in the production and consumption of music and audio technologies and skillsets. Secrets and revelatory discourse serves to historicize, imagine and commodify skillsets whilst amplifying technological fetishisation. Grounded in historical and psychology scholarship, this book examines secrets and revelation as part of a continuum of the protection of tacit knowledge. Packed with examples and qualitative data drawn from trade shows, online fora, industry associations, retail, textbooks, and education, this large-scale study elucidates the mechanism of secret holders, secrets, revelation and listeners as being intrinsic to music and audio technology cultures. The results of this research illustrate how, in the potent distillation of music and audio technology knowledge and skillsets into commodified secrets, little to nothing is revealed.
Examining Secrets and Revelation in Music and Audio Technology Cultures features in the following genres: Espionage and secret services, Acoustic and sound engineering, Music recording and reproduction
Examining Secrets and Revelation in Music and Audio Technology Cultures is available in Paperback, Hardback
Examining Secrets and Revelation in Music and Audio Technology Cultures was written by Samantha Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press
Examining Secrets and Revelation in Music and Audio Technology Cultures has 75 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Elements. Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice series
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