Echo and reverb
Subtitle: fabricating space in popular music, 1900-1960
By: Peter Doyle.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Middletown, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780819567932; 9780819567949
Subjects: Popular music -- History and criticism.; Sound recordings -- Production and direction -- History.
Description: Introduction - Harnessing the echo - 'Way out there': hillbilly, blues and jazz - 'Blue shadows on the trail': space and place in the imagined West - 'And as the sun sinks slowly in the west': sobbing guitars, distant horizons and the acoustics of otherness - 'How near, how far': inner voices, weird space and the ghostly West - 'Off the wall': blues recording at Sun and Chess Studios, 1947-1954 - 'Train I Ride': Rock 'n' roll echo - 'Train kept a rollin': popular music's new territories - Conclusion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ), discography (p.  ), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Harnessing the echo; title: "Way out there" : hillbilly, blues, and jazz; title: "Blue shadows on the trail" : space and place in the imagined West; title: "And as the sun sinks slowly in the west . . ." : sobbing guitars, distant horizons, and the acoustics of otherness; title: "How near, how far?" : inner voices, weird space, and the ghostly West; title: "Off the wall" : blues recording at Sun and Chess studios, 1947-1954; title: "Train I ride . . ." : rock 'n' roll echo; title: "Train kept a rollin'" : popular music's new territories; title: Conclusion : "Race with the devil".