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This is a supplemental website for the book The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form (MIT Press, 2013) by Sumanth Gopinath. It includes audio and multimedia examples corresponding to the examples in the book itself. Access to the examples is password protected, with the relevant information being found in the book’s acknowledgments section. Questions about this website may be directed to theringtonedialectic [at] gmail [dot] com.

The website was created with the help of Mike Duffy and Brian Schmidt. Support for the project was generously provided by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This website and the materials on it are in no way affiliated with the MIT Press. The site owner is solely responsible for its contents.