Description |
1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Hagley perspectives on business and culture.
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Radio -- History -- 20th century
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Listening -- History -- 20th century
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Hearing -- History -- 20th century
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Mechanization -- History -- 20th century
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Sound -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Sound -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Sound -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Economic history -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- History -- 20th century
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Social history -- 20th century.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Economic history
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Hearing
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Listening
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Mechanization
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Popular culture
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Radio
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Social history
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Strasser, Susan, 1948- editor.
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Suisman, David, editor.
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LC no. |
2009024356 |
ISBN |
9780812206869 |
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081220686X |
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128389114X |
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9781283891141 |
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0812222296 |
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9780812222296 |
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