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Title Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction [electronic resource] / edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser.

Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vi, 309 p. : ill.
Series Hagley perspectives on business and culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Social history -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
Economic history -- 20th century.
Sound -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Sound -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Sound -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Mechanization -- History -- 20th century.
Hearing -- History -- 20th century.
Listening -- History -- 20th century.
Radio -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Suisman, David.
Strasser, Susan, 1948-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780812241990 (alk. paper)
0812241991 (alk. paper)
9780812222296
9780812206869 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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