Spectacular Listening: Music and Disability in the Digital Age

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Byrd McDaniel (Assistant Director of Student Development, Assistant Director of Student Development, Brown University)

Spectacular Listening

Music and Disability in the Digital Age

Byrd McDaniel (Assistant Director of Student Development, Assistant Director of Student Development, Brown University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
27 August 2024

Music: styles & genres; Disability: social aspects

Imagine a powerful listening experience that you want to share with others. You could describe it to someone with words, or you may choose a flashier alternative. You could, for example, costume yourself and take to the stage in a famous concert venue, delivering a rousing air guitar interpretation of a beloved rock solo for a live audience. Maybe you seek something more subtle, so you pull out your smartphone and record yourself lip-syncing to a guilty pleasure, showing your followers how seamlessly the music fits your movements. Perhaps instead you want others to hear how the music makes you feel, which leads you to record a podcast episode that translates the thrill of listening into audible exclamations. In ways both mundane and sensational, listening can be an expressive act, enabling people to stage consumption as a public practice -- what author Byrd McDaniel calls ""spectacular listening."" Contemporary digital platforms not only support such activity but actively encourage people to package personal music reception into a performance that may be widely shared. With a range of compelling ethnographic case studies, McDaniel investigates a broad shift in contemporary listening norms and the stakes for listeners with disabilities. He reveals how listening-as-performance can be an opportunity for play, as well as a critical practice that exposes ableism in music institutions, technologies, and discourse.

By: Byrd McDaniel (Assistant Director of Student Development Assistant Director of Student Development Brown University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9780197620465
ISBN 10: 0197620469
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 27 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Preface List of Figures 1. Introduction: Listening As An Expressive Act 2. Use Your Illusion: Disability Masquerade In The U.S. Air Guitar Championships 3. Fluent Circulation: Lip-Syncing From Musical.Ly To Tiktok To Youtube 4. Tactical Reactions: Towards A Crip Music Criticism 5. Accessible Listening: Podcasts As Audible Models 6. Conclusion: When Spectacular Becomes Standard Bibliography Index

Byrd McDaniel is a music researcher and ethnomusicologist, who examines the relationships between sound technologies and people. His published work engages with listening, disability, music, and popular culture, in ways that entwine digital media studies, disability studies, and music studies. In his current position as Assistant Director of Student Development at Brown University, McDaniel strives to make higher education more adaptable, accessible, and accountable to our changing world.

Reviews for Spectacular Listening: Music and Disability in the Digital Age

Spectacular Listening is a timely and insightful ethnographic exploration of how listeners with disabilities negotiate and mobilize popular-music consumption in the digital age. With a keen eye and ear toward the commonplace and the seemingly trivial, Byrd McDaniel presents air guitar, lip syncing, reaction videos, and podcasts as exhibition venues for meaningful, worthwhile activism through their public staging of popular media consumption and of listening. * Yuhao Chen, Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *