Reviews for Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West

The average rating for Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-14 00:00:00 Depalle Janick I learned more from writing it than reading it. ;-) Seriously, I spent a few years autopsying what I had learned from years with one foot in "traditional media" and one foot in "digital media." And I was often asked to teach what I'd learned. So I started to pull the thread of "media" and the whole sweater unraveled. I had to re-knit my understanding of media and narrative in a way that was self-consistent and teachable. It was an amazing journey and I wrote the book much as a journal of that journey. I'm confident it'll provide a foundation for better understanding of the changes occuring in media and commerce for anyone interesting in going down that rabbit hole. Blue pill or red pill, y'all?

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-07 00:00:00 Lois Lightfoot Some of the information seems dated and stale, not surprising considering that it was published in 2004. My fault for not getting to it sooner. I didn't get the part about networked media being feminine and how it will help balance the yin and yang that has been out of kilter since the Middle Ages. Banister concludes his book with 11 predictions for the 5 year future of networked media, many of which have occurred. The one he missed was the role of social media in political revolution (okay, maybe that one took 7 years).