Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Suisman, David.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10642189
Table of 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.