Making easy listening : material culture and postwar American recording / Tim J. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Tim J.

Series:

Commerce and mass culture series.

Commerce and mass culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound recording industry--United States--History.

Sound recording industry.

Sound recordings--Production and direction--United States.

Sound recordings.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Making Easy Listening, Tim J. Anderson analyzes the period between the Second World War and the mid-1960s that saw the American music industry engaged in a fundamental transformation in how music was produced and experienced. Anderson presents a social and cultural history of musical production that aims to understand how recording technologies influence musicians', as well as listeners', lives.

Contents:

Introduction : opening tracks

Managing the recording process and rethinking the recording bans. Buried under the fecundity of his own creations : the first strike of the American Federation of Musicians ; Counterreform and resignation : the second strike of the American Federation of Musicians

Production, reproduction, and the case of My fair lady. Which voice best becomes the property? stitching the intertext of My fair lady ; Listening to my My fair lady : versioning and the recorded music object

Stereo, hi-fi, and the modern pleasures of easy listening. A tale of two ears : the concert hall aesthetic and stereo ; Space, the pliable frontier : stereo as the new spatial palette of audio

Conclusion : the flip side (and a few concluding thoughts).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9695-0

OCLC:

476096018