Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction

Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction [electronic resource] / edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010. - vi, 309 p. : ill. - Hagley perspectives on business and culture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Affect and the politics of listening -- Distracted listening : on not making sound choices in the 1930s / David Goodman -- "Her voice a bullet" : imaginary propaganda and the legendary broadcasters of World War II / Ann Elizabeth Pfau and David Hochfelder -- "Savage dissonance" : gender, voice, and women's radio speech in Argentina, 1930-1945 / Christine Ehrick -- pt. 2. Sonic objects -- Collectors, bootleggers, and the value of jazz, 1930-1952 / Alex Cummings -- High-fidelity sound as spectacle and sublime, 1950-1961 / Eric D. Barry -- pt. 3. Hearing order -- Occupied listeners : the legacies of interwar radio for France during World War II / Derek W. Vaillant -- An audible sense of order : race, fear, and CB radio on Los Angeles freeways in the 1970s / Angela M. Blake -- pt. 4. Sound commerce -- "The people's orchestra" : jukeboxes as the measure of popular musical taste in the 1930s and 1940s / Chris Rasmussen -- Sounds local : the competition for space and place in early U.S. radio / Bill Kirkpatrick -- The sound of print : newspapers and the public promotion of early radio broadcasting in the United States / Michael Stamm.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780812206869 (electronic bk.)




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.


Electronic books.

HN16 / .S598 2010

306.4/8420904