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Title:

Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction / edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

vi, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social history--20th century
Popular culture--History--20th century.
Economic history--20th century
Sound--History--History--20th century.
Sound--History--History--20th century.
Sound--History--History--20th century.
Mechanization--History--20th century.
Hearing--History--20th century.
Listening--History--20th century.
Radio--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Suisman, David
Strasser, Susan, 1948-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Hagley perspectives on business and culture

ISBN:

0812241991 (alk. paper)
9780812241990 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320800463

LCCN:

2009024356

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)