Loops as Genre Resources
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Glenn Stillar
Abstract
The audio loop is both shaped by, and shaping of, the medium resources, mode conventions, and genre practices associated with sound design and music production. Digital technologies have made it much easier to create and manipulate loops. The conventions surrounding their use have broadened in scope such that loops can form the basic unit of sound design or musical composition on their own. And loops and looping have found their way into almost every genre of music and sound design. Loops have very specific structural and functional properties, built as they are for continuous, uninterrupted, serial repetition. The affordances of these structural and functional properties can be applied to designing and understanding other meaning-making resources in different media, modes, and genres.
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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- Introduction: Approaches to Genre
- Revisiting Service Encounter Genre – Some Reflections
- Multimedia Genres and Traversals
- What Communication Linguistics has to Offer Genre and Register Research
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- Settings, Speech Genres, and the Institutional Organization of Practices
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- Loops as Genre Resources
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Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction: Approaches to Genre
- Revisiting Service Encounter Genre – Some Reflections
- Multimedia Genres and Traversals
- What Communication Linguistics has to Offer Genre and Register Research
- Generic and Rhetorical Structures of Texts: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
- Settings, Speech Genres, and the Institutional Organization of Practices
- “Speech Action Patterns” and “Discourse Types”
- Magazine Covers – A Multimodal Pretext-Genre
- Loops as Genre Resources
- Libri
