Dossier Presentation: "Mediatizations of music: between the phonographic and the radiophonic"

Abstract

The mediatization of sound transformed the ways of producing, distributing and receiving music since the end of the 19th century. With the phonograph, the new technical device made possible the visual abstraction of the source of the sound, the time delayed reception of the broadcast and the indexical recording of the voice conceived as the body of the emitter itself. In the 1920s, the radiophonic device, for its part, incorporated live transmissions and became an indispensable partner for the consolidation of the music industry. The relationship of both mass media and music, which was sealed in that broadcasting period based on sound, was able to survive after the 50s under the audiovisual domain and was largely transformed from the 80s on, with the process of digitalization that gave birth to the networking model of communication (Fernández, 2013). In a tour through those crossings between the phonographic and radiophonic development, the articles included in this dossier explore three moments in the history of music mediatizations from different perspectives…