Electric Sounds : : Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media / / Steve Wurtzler.
Electric Sounds brings to vivid life an era when innovations in the production, recording, and transmission of sound revolutionized a number of different media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema. The 1920s and 1930s marked some of the most important developments in the history of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Film and Culture Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 15 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Technological Innovation and the Consolidation of Corporate Power
- 2. Announcing Technological Change
- 3. From Performing the Recorded to Dissimulating the Machine
- 4. Making Sound Media Meaningful Commerce, Culture, Politics
- 5. Transcription Versus Signification Competing: Paradigms for Representing with Sound
- Conclusions/Reverberations
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter