Personal stereo / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca, author.

Series:

Object lessons.

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portable media players--Social aspects.

Portable media players.

Music--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Music.

Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies.

Sound.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2020.

Summary:

"When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also denounced as self-indulgent and antisocial-the quintessential accessory for the "me" generation. In Personal Stereo, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow takes us back to the birth of the device, exploring legal battles over credit for its invention, its ambivalent reception in 1980s America, and its lasting effects on social norms and public space. Ranging from postwar Japan to the present, Tuhus-Dubrow tells an illuminating story about our emotional responses to technological change."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Novelty : Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute ; Trapping sound ; The Walkman's fathers ; The case of Andreas Pavel ; Invention or evolution? ; Enter the Walkman ; "The thinking man's box" ; The Walkman, culottes, and moccasins : "Outside of reality"

Norm : Hear muffs and baladeurs ; Symbol of the 1980s ; A public health problem ; Death by Walkman ; "Home taping is killing music" ; "First, drug abuse; now, earphone abuse" ; "There is no such thing as society" ; A nonstop masturbational fantasy ; Fondalepsy and Walkman's oblivion ; Cosmetics, Walkmans, and Mars Bars ; "Remember Pearl Harbor" ; The management of everyday life ; A listening, enjoying unit ; What would Miss Manners say?

Nostalgia : Music wants to be free ; The iPod arrives ; Whatever happened to Sony? ; From crazy to normal, from glares to shrugs ; "I only listen to cassettes" ; Why the analog nostalgia? ; Revenge of the Walkman ; A force that bends logic.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501322846

1501322842

9781501322822

1501322826

9781501322839

1501322834

OCLC:

1201426588