Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
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Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music is a book written in 2007 by Yuval Taylor and Hugh Barker. In this book the authors discuss the quest for authenticity
in popular music and the influence that that quest has had in the type of music that is played and listened, in particular a preference for raw, simple, underproduced
music as opposed to sophisticated, complex, carefully produced music.
Authenticity
Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions.Authenticity or Authentic may refer to:*Authentication, having passed the tests thereof...
in popular music and the influence that that quest has had in the type of music that is played and listened, in particular a preference for raw, simple, underproduced
Lo-fi music
Lo-fi is lower quality of sound recordings than the usual standard for music. The qualities of lo-fi are usually achieved by either degrading the quality of the recorded audio, or using certain equipment. Recent uses of the phrase have led to it becoming a genre, although it still remains as an...
music as opposed to sophisticated, complex, carefully produced music.
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