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Title: Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America by David Morton ISBN: 0-8135-2747-3 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Lively history of the technologies we all use
Comment: From record players to answering machines, David Morton's history of sound recording explains where these everyday technologies came from--and why some of them, like the 8-track tape, ultimately met their demise. Chapters cover the record industry, radio broadcasting, dictation machines, answering machines, and tape recorders, but the book is as much about American culture as it is about machines. Where did the cult of "high fidelity" come from? Why was using recordings on the radio highly controversial at first? The answering machine chapter offers commentary from social notables ranging from Miss Manners to Blondie (would she have been "hanging on the telephone" if a machine had picked up?), and we learn that recording piracy was an issue long before Naptster. The writing is not overly technical and has lots of illustrations of little-known machines and the often hilarious advertising campaigns that promoted them. A fun read.
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Title: The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan Sterne ISBN: 082233013X Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and Its Effects on Music by Michael Chanan ISBN: 1859840124 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: America on Record : A History of Recorded Sound by Andre Millard ISBN: 0521475562 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 27 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by Emily Thompson ISBN: 0262201380 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
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Title: Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture by Timothy Taylor ISBN: 0415936845 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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