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Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction / edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser.
LIBRA HN16 .S598 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Hagley perspectives on business and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social history--20th century.
- Social history.
- Popular culture--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Economic history--20th century.
- Economic history.
- Sound--Social aspects--History--20th century.
- Sound.
- Sound--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Sound--Economic aspects--History--20th century.
- Mechanization--History--20th century.
- Mechanization.
- Hearing--History--20th century.
- Hearing.
- Listening--History--20th century.
- Listening.
- Radio--History--20th century.
- Radio.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Affect and the politics of listening
- Distracted listening : on not making sound choices in the 1930s / David Goodman
- "Her voice a bullet" : imaginary propaganda and the legendary broadcasters of World War II / Ann Elizabeth Pfau and David Hochfelder
- "Savage dissonance" : gender, voice, and women's radio speech in Argentina, 1930-1945 / Christine Ehrick
- pt. 2. Sonic objects
- Collectors, bootleggers, and the value of jazz, 1930-1952 / Alex Cummings
- High-fidelity sound as spectacle and sublime, 1950-1961 / Eric D. Barry
- pt. 3. Hearing order
- Occupied listeners : the legacies of interwar radio for France during World War II / Derek W. Vaillant
- An audible sense of order : race, fear, and CB radio on Los Angeles freeways in the 1970s / Angela M. Blake
- pt. 4. Sound commerce
- "The people's orchestra" : jukeboxes as the measure of popular musical taste in the 1930s and 1940s / Chris Rasmussen
- Sounds local : the competition for space and place in early U.S. radio / Bill Kirkpatrick
- The sound of print : newspapers and the public promotion of early radio broadcasting in the United States / Michael Stamm.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812241990
- 0812241991
- OCLC:
- 320800463
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