The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching out with Technology

The theme of this Research Companion is ’connectivity and the global reach of electroacoustic music and sonic arts made with technology’. The possible scope of such a companion in the field of electronic music has changed radically over the last thirty years. The definitions of the field itself are now broader - there is no clear boundary between ’electronic music’ and ’sound art’. Also, what was previously an apparently simple divide between ’art’ and ’popular’ practices is now not easy or helpful to make and there is a rich cluster of streams of practice with many histories, including world music traditions. This leads in turn to a steady undermining of a primarily Euro-American enterprise in the second half of the twentieth century.