Sound media : from live journalism to music recording / Lars Nyre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nyre, Lars.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound--Recording and reproducing.

Sound.

Sound--Recording and reproducing--History.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital : approximately 54 min. ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

Accompanying sound disc contains ... "thirty-six examples from broadcasting and music recording in Europe and the USA, from Edith Piaf to Sara Cox."--Front free end paper.

Contents:

1 Theoretical introduction to sound media 1

1 Sound and listening 2

2 Medium theory 9

3 Backwards History 16

4 Auditory rhetoric 19

Part I The present time 31

2 The acoustic computer: Nervous experiments with sound media 33

3 Synthetic music: Digital recording in great detail 51

4 The mobile public: Journalism for urban navigators 66

5 Phone radio: Personality journalism in voice alone 81

6 Loudspeaker living: Pop music is everywhere 97

Part II Backwards history III

7 Tape control: A revolution in recorded music, 1970s-1950s 113

8 The acoustic nation: Live journalism, 1960s-1930s 129

9 Microphone moods: Music recording, 1940s-1930s 152

10 Atmospheric contact: Experiments in broadcasting, 1920s-1900s 166

11 The repeating machine: Music recording, 1920s-1870s 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-205) and index.

ISBN:

9780415391139

041539113X

9780415391146

0415391148

OCLC:

191865192