Making Tracks as a Recursive Problem-Solving Process. Towards an Ethnography of Recording Studio Practices in Popular Music Cultures

In his chapter, Bratus presents a broad overview of scholarly approaches that have focused on the recording studio, both in the field of ethnomusicology and popular music studies. The chapter focuses on how ethnography has proved to be a crucial tool for assessing the way the issues of the cultural and social valence of sound and the modes of production of the physical artefacts used to preserve it are addressed in a recording studio.