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Title Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction / edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) : illustrations
Series Hagley perspectives on business and culture.
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
Summary 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
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780812206869
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Radio -- History -- 20th century
Listening -- History -- 20th century
Hearing -- History -- 20th century
Mechanization -- History -- 20th century
Sound -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century
Sound -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
Sound -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
Economic history -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century
Social history -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Economic history
Hearing
Listening
Mechanization
Popular culture
Radio
Social history
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Strasser, Susan, 1948- editor.
Suisman, David, editor.
LC no. 2009024356
ISBN 9780812206869
081220686X
128389114X
9781283891141
0812222296
9780812222296