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Author Wurtzler, Steve J.

Title Electric sounds : technological change and the rise of corporate mass media / Steve J. Wurtzler.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  303.4833 W964e 2007    ---  Available
Description xi, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Film and culture series
Film and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-366) and index.
Contents Technological innovation and the consolidation of corporate power -- Announcing technological change -- From performing the recorded to dissimulating the machine -- Making sound media meaningful: commerce, culture, politics -- Transcription versus signification: competing paradigms for representing with sound -- Conclusions/Reverberations.
Subject Mass media -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Mass media -- Ownership -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0231136765 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231136761 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2427698
AU@ 000040430917
NZ1 10875857
NLGGC 301730520

 
    
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