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Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction

Additional authors: Suisman, David. | Strasser, Susan, -- 1948- | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Hagley perspectives on business and culture Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press, (Philadelphia :) Physical details: vi, 309 p. : ill.
Subject(s): 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.
Year: 2010
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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