Making easy listening
Subtitle: material culture and postwar American recording
By: Tim J. Anderson.
Series: Commerce and mass culture series
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Sound recording industry -- United States -- History; Sound recordings -- Production and direction -- United States; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : opening tracks; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Conclusion : the flip side (and a few concluding thoughts).