The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality, edited by Sheila Whiteley and Shara Rambarran, brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars who address issues such as artistic agency, the relationship between reality and illusion or simulation, and the construction of musical personae, subjectivities and identities in a virtual world. List of Figures and Tables; Companion Website and List of Musical Examples; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Andy Bennett; Introduction; Sheila Whiteley; PART 1 The Pre-Digital Virtual; Introduction; 1 In Seventeenth Heaven: Virtual Listening and its Discontents; Christian Lloyd; 2 Nothing is Real: The Beatles as Virtual Performers; Philip Auslander and Ian Inglis; 3 Tom, Jerry and the Virtual Virtuoso; Sheila Whiteley; 4 Bring that Beat Back: Sampling as Virtual Collaboration; Rowan Oliver; 5 An Analysis of Virtuality in the Creation and Reception of the Music of Frank Zappa; Paul Carr; PART 2 Vocaloids, Holograms and Virtual Pop Stars; Introduction; 6 Vocaloids and Japanese Virtual Vocal Performance: The Cultural Heritage and Technological Futures of Vocal Puppetry; Louise H. Jackson and Mike Dines; 7 Hatsune Miku and Japanese Virtual Idols; Rafal Zaborowski; 8 Hatsune Miku,

2. 0Pac and Beyond: Rewinding and Fast-Forwarding the Virtual Pop Star; Thomas Conner; 9 Feel Good with Gorillaz and Reject False Icons: The Fantasy Worlds of the Virtual Group and their Creators; Shara Rambarran; PART 3 Second Life; Introduction; 10 Avatar Rockstars: Constructing Musical Personae in Virtual Worlds; Trevor S. Harvey; 11 Performing Live in Second Life; Justin Gagen and Nicholas Cook; 12 Live Opera Performance in Second Life: Challenging Producers, Performers and the Audience; Marco Antonio Chavez-Aguayo; PART 4 Authorship, Creativity and Musicianship; Introduction; 13 We Are, The Colors: Collaborative Narration and the Experimental Construction of a Non-Existent Band; Alon Ilsar and Charles Fairchild; 14 Music in Perpetual Beta: Composition, Remediation, and 'Closure'; Paul Draper and Frank Millward; 15 Justin Bieber Featuring Slipknot: Consumption as Mode of Production; Ragnhild Brovig-Hanssen; 16 Human After All: Understanding Negotiations of Artistic Identity through the Music of Daft Punk; Cora S. Palfy; 17 Virtual Bands: Recording Music Under the Big Top; David Tough; PART 5 Communities and the World-Wide-Web; Introduction; 18 Uploading to Carnegie Hall: The First YouTube Symphony Orchestra; Shzr Ee Tan; 19 The Listener as Remixer: Mix Stems in Online Fan Community and Competition Contexts; Samantha Bennett; 20 Sample Sharing: Virtual Laptop Ensemble Communities; Benjamin O'Brien; 21 Stone Tapes: Ghost Box, Nostalgia, and Post-War England; David Pattie; 22 From Hypnagogia to Distroid: Postironic Musical Renderings of Personal Memory; Adam Trainer; 23 Bands in Virtual Spaces, Social Networking and Masculinity; Danijela Bogdanovic; PART 6 Sonic Environments and Musical Experience; Introduction; 24 From Environmental Sound To Virtual Environment Enhancing: Consuming Ambiance as Listening Practice; Thomas Brett; 25 App Music; Jeremy Wade Morris; 26 Alternative Virtuality. Independent Micro Labels Facing the Ideological Challenge of Virtual Music Culture: The Case of Finnish Ektro Records; Juho Kaitajarvi-Tiekso; 27 Everybody Knows There is Here: Surveying the Indexi-Local in CBC Radio 3; Michael Audette-Longo; 28 Mind Usurps Program: Virtuality and the New Machine Aesthetic of Electronic Dance Music; Benjamin Halligan; PART 7 Participatory Culture and Fundraising; Introduction; 29 Virtual Music, Virtual Money: The Impact of Crowdfunding Models on Creativity, Authorship and Identity; Mark Thorley; 30 With a Little Help From My Friends, Family and Fans. DIY, Participatory Culture and Social Capital in Music Crowdfunding; Francesco D'Amato; 31 Music and Crowdfunded Websites: Digital Patronage and Artist-Fan Interactivity; Justin Williams and Ross Wilson; PART 8 Authors' Blog: Final Thoughts on Music and Virtuality; Ed. Paul Carr; PART 9 Glossary; Ed. Shara Rambarran; Index