ISBN:
0812241991
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9780812222296
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9780812241990
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 309 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Hagley perspectives on business and culture
Series Statement:
Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
DDC:
306.4/8420904
Keywords:
Sound Economic aspects 20th century
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History
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Mechanization History 20th century
;
Hearing History 20th century
;
Listening History 20th century
;
Radio History 20th century
;
Economic history 20th century
;
Sound Social aspects 20th century
;
History
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Popular culture History 20th century
;
Social history 20th century
;
Sound Political aspects 20th century
;
History
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Economic history ; 20th century
;
Mechanization ; History ; 20th century
;
Popular culture ; History ; 20th century
;
Social history ; 20th century
;
Sound ; Economic aspects ; History ; 20th century
;
Sound ; Political aspects ; History ; 20th century
;
Sound ; Social aspects ; History ; 20th century
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Thinking Historically About Sound and Sense -- Part I: Affect and the Politics of Listening -- 1. Distracted Listening: On Not Making Sound Choices in the 1930s -- 2. "Her Voice a Bullet": Imaginary Propaganda and the Legendary Broadcasters of World War II -- 3. "Savage Dissonance": Gender, Voice, and Women's Radio Speech in Argentina, 1930-1945 -- Part II: Sonic Objects -- 4. Collectors, Bootleggers, and the Value of Jazz, 1930-1952 -- 5. High-Fidelity Sound as Spectacle and Sublime, 1950-1961 -- Part III: Hearing Order -- 6. Occupied Listeners: The Legacies of Interwar Radio for France During World War II -- 7. An Audible Sense of Order: Race, Fear, and CB Radio on Los Angeles Freeways in the 1970s -- Part IV: Sound Commerce -- 8. "The People's Orchestra": Jukeboxes as the Measure of Popular Musical Taste in the 1930s and 1940s -- 9. Sounds Local: The Competition for Space and Place in Early U.S. Radio -- 10. The Sound of Print: Newspapers and the Public Promotion of Early Radio Broadcasting in the United States -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction: Thinking Historically About Sound and Sense ""; ""Part I: Affect and the Politics of Listening ""; ""1. Distracted Listening: On Not Making Sound Choices in the 1930s ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""2. ""Her Voice a Bullet"": Imaginary Propaganda and the Legendary Broadcasters of World War II """"3. ""Savage Dissonance"": Gender, Voice, and Women's Radio Speech in Argentina, 1930-1945 ""; ""Part II: Sonic Objects ""; ""4. Collectors, Bootleggers, and the Value of Jazz, 1930-1952 ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""5. High-Fidelity Sound as Spectacle and Sublime, 1950-1961 """"Part III: Hearing Order ""; ""6. Occupied Listeners: The Legacies of Interwar Radio for France During World War II ""; ""7. An Audible Sense of Order: Race, Fear, and CB Radio on Los Angeles Freeways in the 1970s ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Part IV: Sound Commerce """"8. ""The People's Orchestra"": Jukeboxes as the Measure of Popular Musical Taste in the 1930s and 1940s ""; ""9. Sounds Local: The Competition for Space and Place in Early U.S. Radio ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""10. The Sound of Print: Newspapers and the Public Promotion of Early Radio Broadcasting in the United States """"Notes ""; ""List of Contributors ""; ""Index ""; ""Acknowledgments ""
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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