Download or read book Mediating the Muse written by Robert Albrecht and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2004 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many media ecologists have speculated about oral culture and custom, but few have documented in situ the cultural changes actually experienced when a traditional system of musical experience is transformed by modern technology. This book is an oral history and ethnographic description of musical change in a small town community in Brazil through the compilation of 40 oral histories. The study of music as communication is squarely within the media ecology theoretical framework of orality-literacy-electronic environments.