Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction /

Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / / ed. by Susan Strasser, David Suisman.

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During the twentieth century sound underwent a dramatic transformation as new technologies and social practices challenged conventional aural experience. As a result, sound functioned as a means to exert social, cultural, and political power in unprecedented and unexpected ways. The fleeting nature...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
MitwirkendeR:
Barry, Eric D.,
Blake, Angela M.,
Cummings, Alex,
Ehrick, Christine,
Goodman, David,
Hochfelder, David,
Kirkpatrick, Bill,
Pfau, Ann Elizabeth,
Rasmussen, Chris,
Stamm, Michael,
Suisman, David,
Vaillant, Derek W.,
HerausgeberIn:
Strasser, Susan,
Suisman, David,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 13 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Thinking Historically About Sound and Sense
  • Part I. Affect and the Politics of Listening
  • Chapter 1: Distracted Listening: On Not Making Sound Choices in the 1930s
  • Chapter 2: ''Her Voice a Bullet'' Imaginary Propaganda and the Legendary Broadcasters of World War II
  • Chapter 3: ''Savage Dissonance'' Gender, Voice, and Women's Radio Speech in Argentina, 1930-1945
  • Part II. Sonic Objects
  • Chapter 4: Collectors, Bootleggers, and the Value of Jazz, 1930-1952
  • Chapter 5: High-Fidelity Sound as Spectacle and Sublime, 1950-1961
  • Part III. Hearing Order
  • Chapter 6: Occupied Listeners: The Legacies of Interwar Radio for France During World War II
  • Chapter 7: An Audible Sense of Order: Race, Fear, and CB Radio on Los Angeles Freeways in the 1970s
  • Part IV. Sound Commerce
  • Chapter 8: ''The People's Orchestra'' Jukeboxes as the Measure of Popular Musical Taste in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Chapter 9: Sounds Local: The Competition for Space and Place in Early U.S. Radio
  • Chapter 10: The Sound of Print: Newspapers and the Public Promotion of Early Radio Broadcasting in the United States
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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