{"product_id":"preprogrammed-how-electronic-presets-changed-music-and-media-volume-9-paperback","title":"Preprogrammed: How Electronic Presets Changed Music and Media Volume 9 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmy Skjerseth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow much of your life is preprogrammed? Presets, or default settings on technology, can be found everywhere, from predictive text and Instagram filters to microwave popcorn buttons and morning alarms. But while presets facilitate the completion of tasks and the production of art, they also reinforce--or sometimes challenge--economic, political, and social norms. In \u003ci\u003ePreprogrammed\u003c\/i\u003e, interdisciplinary scholar Amy Skjerseth turns to modern music and media to explore what presets allow and deny. Using capitalist, queer, and feminist critique, she shows how, from the popularization of the push-button car radio in the 1930s to the Auto-Tune era and the advent of AI, artists have co-opted preset technologies to reconfigure ways of seeing and hearing and develop new forms of artistic and cultural expression. An urgent\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ereconsideration of the cultural and political systems we often take for granted, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethis elegantly theorized and paradigm-shifting book invites us to rethink the profundity of the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no other book quite like this one. Amy Skjerseth defines presets in a way that encourages us to rethink a host of relationships that are central to popular music: between agency and control, human and machine, and nature and artifice. This book marks an original intervention into the interrelated fields of media studies, popular music studies, and the cultural study of technology.--Steve Waksman, author of \u003ci\u003eLive Music in America: A History from Jenny Lind to Beyonc?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For Skjerseth, presets aren't just preconfigured pathways but critical opportunities for rethinking power, agency, and cultural givens. Stunningly written, capaciously argued, and deeply historical, \u003ci\u003ePreprogrammed\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a pathbreaking journey from twentieth-century car stereo buttons to today's Vocaloid personas in order to reprogram the relationships between science and the arts, the human and the technological, the visual and the audio. A revelatory work.\"--Jennifer Lynn Stoever, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An electrifying journey through the hidden power of presets, \u003ci\u003ePreprogrammed\u003c\/i\u003e transforms how we understand and hear modern music. From car radios to Auto-Tune, Skjerseth reveals how sound, culture, and technology collide and how artists push back against the default. Absorbing and deeply original, this book will change how you listen.\"--Lisa Parks, Distinguished Professor of Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara \"This book is about the buttons we push, tap, and click the most--and think about the least. Skjerseth's study of electronic presets reveals important tensions between producers and consumers, norms and creativity, freedom and constraint. Skjerseth puts her finger on the hidden cost of technological efficiency: every 'simple push of a button' entails the ritual sacrifice of a thousand possibilities.\"--Mack Hagood, author of \u003ci\u003eHush: Media and Sonic Self-Control \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Skjerseth\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Popular Music at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Voice and Identity.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67865623888179,"sku":"9780520413498","price":69.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/xWRD3g4a009780520413498.webp?v=1793593911","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/preprogrammed-how-electronic-presets-changed-music-and-media-volume-9-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}