Sound souvenirs
Subtitle: audio technologies, memory and cultural practices
By: edited by Karin Bijsterveld & José van Dijck
Series: Transformations in art and culture
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9789089641328
Subjects: Sound; Music and technology; Social aspects; Recording and reproducing; Technology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Karin Bijsterveld & José van Dijck; title: Storing sound. Storing sound souvenirs : the multi-sited domestication of the tape recorder / Karin Bijsterveld and Annelies Jacobs ; Tape cassettes and former selves : how mix tapes mediate memories / Bas Jansen ; The preservation paradox in digital audio / Jonathan Sterne; title: Auditory nostalgia. Taking your favorite sound along : portable audio technologies for mobile music listening / Heike Weber ; The auditory nostalgia of iPod culture / Michael Bull ; Performance and nostalgia on the oldies circuit / Timothy D. Taylor ; Remembering songs through telling stories : pop music as a resource for memory / José van Dijck; title: Technostalgia. Tuning in nostalgic wavelengths : transistor memories set to music / Andreas Fickers ; Pulled out of thin air? the revival of the theremin / Hans-Joachim Braun ; Technostalgia : how old gear lives on in new music / Trevor Pinch and David Reinecke; title: Earwitnessing. Earwitnessing : sound memories of the Nazi period / Carolyn Birdsall ; All the names : soundscapes, recording technology, and the historical sensation / Ruth Benschop.