Overview
- Examines the human, social, cultural and technical aspects of creation of popular music using a confluence approach to creativity
- Navigates major theoretical concepts of creativity and how they connect
- to the activities occurring outside and inside the recording studio
- Challenges the myths of creativity, combining a number of perspectives from sociology and psychology
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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SIDE A—Creativity as a System
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Front Matter
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SIDE B—Creative Systems in Action
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Back Matter
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About this book
Paul Thompson offers an alternative take on the romanticized and mythologized process of record-making. Side A illustrates how creativity arises out of a system in action, and introduces the history, culture, traditions and institutions that contribute to the process of commercial record production. Side B demonstrates this system in action during the central tasks of songwriting, performing, engineering and producing. Using examples from John Lennon, David Bowie, Tupac Shakur, Björk, Marta Salogni, Sylvia Massy and Rick Rubin, each chapter takes the reader inside a different part of the commercial record production process and uncovers the interactive and interrelated multitude of factors involved in each creative task.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Paul Thompson is a professional recording engineer who has worked in the music industry for over 10 years. He is currently a Reader at Leeds Beckett University and his research is centred on record production, audio education, learning practices, creativity and cultural production in popular music.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creativity in the Recording Studio
Book Subtitle: Alternative Takes
Authors: Paul Thompson
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01650-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01649-4Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01650-0Published: 29 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 285
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Culture, Music