An ethnographic account of the history, development, and cultural impacts of digital tuning software

Catherine Provenzano is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles Herb Alpert School of Music.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Emotional Signals
Chapter 1: Anxious Listening and Real-Time Sociality: Studio Temperament and Tempered Pitch
Chapter 2: What’s Real? Auto-Tune’s Material World
Chapter 3: What’s Good? Melodyne’s Nature
Chapter 4: Emo Rap, Auto-Tune, and Emotional Empire
Chapter 5: The Geography of Demonic Work
Conclusion: Over the Rainbow, Somewhere
Bibliography
Index