Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction
By: edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser.
Contributors: Suisman, David.; Strasser, Susan, 1948-
Series: Hagley perspectives on business and culture; Hagley perspectives on business and culture
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780812241990
Subjects: Social history -- 20th century; Popular culture -- History -- 20th century; Economic history -- 20th century; Sound -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century; Sound -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century; Sound -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century; Mechanization -- History -- 20th century; Hearing -- History -- 20th century; Listening -- History -- 20th century; Radio -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Affect and the politics of listening; title: Distracted listening : on not making sound choices in the 1930s / David Goodman; title: "Her voice a bullet" : imaginary propaganda and the legendary broadcasters of World War II / Ann Elizabeth Pfau and David Hochfelder; title: "Savage dissonance" : gender, voice, and women's radio speech in Argentina, 1930-1945 / Christine Ehrick; title: pt. 2. Sonic objects; title: Collectors, bootleggers, and the value of jazz, 1930-1952 / Alex Cummings; title: High-fidelity sound as spectacle and sublime, 1950-1961 / Eric D. Barry; title: pt. 3. Hearing order; title: Occupied listeners : the legacies of interwar radio for France during World War II / Derek W. Vaillant; title: An audible sense of order : race, fear, and CB radio on Los Angeles freeways in the 1970s / Angela M. Blake; title: pt. 4. Sound commerce; title: "The people's orchestra" : jukeboxes as the measure of popular musical taste in the 1930s and 1940s / Chris Rasmussen; title: Sounds local : the competition for space and place in early U.S. radio / Bill Kirkpatrick; title: The sound of print : newspapers and the public promotion of early radio broadcasting in the United States / Michael Stamm.