Telephones, music and history: From the invention era to the early smartphone days. (December 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Telephones, music and history: From the invention era to the early smartphone days. (December 2021)
- Main Title:
- Telephones, music and history: From the invention era to the early smartphone days
- Authors:
- Behrendt, Frauke
- Abstract:
- This article focusses on the musical history of the telephone, an aspect of telephonic history that is often overlooked and has not yet received systematic academic attention. The article is structured around two musical themes of telephonic history: (1) public performances of telephones as musical instruments and (2) the telephone network as musical instrument. Two historic periods are considered for both themes, (a) the late 1800s/early 1900s and (b) the late 2000s. The article's approach draws loosely on media historic and media archaeologic perspectives to analyse existing material about telephone history (with a musical focus) alongside empirical field work on the musical use of mobile phones in the late 2000s. The results contribute to debates regarding the 'newness' of media, and to sound studies approaches to media histories. The article shows how the theme of the musical telephone has been re-occurring but often overlooked throughout its history, and also sketches out a future research agenda. The article contributes a new understanding of the musical uses of the telephone across history, relevant for both understanding contemporary uses of telephone technologies such as smartphones and the Internet of Things, and for a richer understanding of historic telephone uses.
- Is Part Of:
- Convergence. Volume 27:Number 6(2021)
- Journal:
- Convergence
- Issue:
- Volume 27:Number 6(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 27, Issue 6 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0027-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 1678
- Page End:
- 1695
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12
- Subjects:
- Media archaeology -- media history -- media studies -- mobile phones -- music -- sound studies -- telephones
Mass media -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals
Telecommunication -- Periodicals
Mass media and technology -- Periodicals
621.3897 - Journal URLs:
- http://con.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/13548565211028810 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1354-8565
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- Legaldeposit
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