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The audible past : cultural origins of sound reproduction / Jonathan Sterne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterne, Jonathan, 1970-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sound--Recording and reproducing--History.
- Sound.
- Sound recording industry--Social aspects.
- Sound recording industry.
- Sound in mass media.
- Sound recordings--Social aspects.
- Sound recordings.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (469 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cultural study of the development of sound technology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from telephones and stethoscopes to record players.
- Contents:
- 1. Machines to Hear for Them
- 2. Techniques of Listening
- 3. Audile Technique and Media
- 4. Plastic Aurality: Technologies into Media
- 5. The Social Genesis of Sound Fidelity
- 6. A Resonant Tomb
- Conclusion: Audible Futures.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-436) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920509
- 9781282920507
- 1282920502
- 9780822384250
- 0822384256
- OCLC:
- 850217350
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