American Polka in the Media: From Next to Nothing to 24/7 by Richard March

“…From its very inception as a nineteenth century popular culture fad, the media presence of polka music has been crucial to its diffusion. In the 1940s and 1950s, polka enjoyed a high profile in American mass media. …”
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Woodstock au fil de ses médiations : Les technologies sonores et les mises en scène du live by Sergio Pisfil, Jos Mulder

“…This article shows the value of a sound-centered and technology-focused approach for the study of live music. Starting from the actual Woodstock festival site in 1969 to the online broadcast of the entire archival recordings of that festival 50 years later, it traces sound technology across time and space from analogue audio infrastructure and recording media to digital audio media and mass distribution infrastructure. …”
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“Kyrie paschale” in Polish Organ Tablatures from the First Half of the 16th Century – Problems of Style and Attribution by Grzegorz Kos

“…The intabulations are arrangements of consecutive sections of the plainchant melody Kyrie ‘Lux et origo’ and constitute sequences of segments (or modules) of a Mass in which organ music alternates with plainchant. …”
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ASPECTS OF THE VOCAL-SYMPHONIC GENRE by Lucian GHIŞA

“…It is to be found in several instances: the musical theatre – opera; without means of theatrical expression – oratorio, and cantata. …”
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From James Bond with love: tourism and tourists in the Bond saga by Marie-Hélène Chevrier, Chloé Huvet

“…These archetypal representations, from mass tourism to luxury tourism and from collective practices to individual practices, are all linked in the films to the image and sound (music and sound design) environments. …”
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A indústria cultural brasileira na formulação de Renato Ortiz by Marcelo Ridenti

“…According to him, culture industry only matured in Brazilian society in the 1960s and 1970s, under military rule, when the market for cultural goods reached a high level in volume and size, with the expressive development of the television, music, film and publishing industry, and others, as well as advertising agencies and all kinds of mass media businesses, increasingly managed according to international standards of business rationality, with direct or indirect support from the State. …”
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Implementing a DVB-T/H Receiver on a Software-Defined Radio Platform by Yong Jiang, Wen Xu, Cyprian Grassmann

“…This paper presents an example implementation of a DVB-T/H receiver on the prototype of Infineon Technologies' Software-Defined Radio (SDR) platform called MuSIC (Multiple SIMD Cores), which is a DSP-centered and accelerator-assisted architecture and aims at battery-powered mass-market handheld terminals.…”
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Jenny Lind. Of Echoes and Traces by Anne Harley, Andrea Zittlau

“…In this article, we consider the music written for Lind and how the sound she produced impacted her audiences, as well as those who did not even hear her. …”
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Outdoor Theatrical Shows in the Remarkable Landscapes of the Chinese Mountains, Between Reinvention of a Tradition and Development of Tourism: the Example of the ‘Tianmen Fox Fairy... by Wei Xiang, Philippe Bachimon, Pierre Dérioz

“…In the form of a sound-and-light musical drama, it adopts a mythified and very formalized approach that uses and embraces the marvellous landscape and attempts to link spectacular technical effects to a stereotypical artistic approach. …”
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Le spectacle de plein air dans les sites paysagers remarquables des montagnes chinoises : le cas du Renard du Mont Tianmen à Zhangjiajie, entre réinvention d’une tradition et mise... by Wei Xiang, Philippe Bachimon, Pierre Dérioz

“…In the form of a sound-and-light musical drama, it adopts a mythified and very formalized approach that uses and embraces the marvellous landscape and attempts to link spectacular technical effects to a stereotypical artistic approach. …”
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“A democratic art at a democratic price”: The American Celebrations of the Shakespeare Tercentenary, 1916 by Monika Smialkowska

“…However, the celebrations throughout the U.S.A. were too widespread and popular to be dismissed offhand as an affair staged by the members of the elite in order to force the masses to accept their vision of culture. A stunning range of large and small-scale Tercentenary projects were carried out across the country, including plays, masques, pageants, festivals, musical and dance tributes, lectures, sermons, exhibitions, courses, tableaux, planting of trees, and developing of Shakespeare gardens. …”
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