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Author Anderson, Tim J.

Title Making easy listening [electronic resource] : material culture and postwar American recording / Tim J. Anderson.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xliv, 236 p. : ill.
Series Commerce and mass culture series
Commerce and mass culture series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.
Contents Introduction : opening tracks -- Managing the recording process and rethinking the recording bans. Buried under the fecundity of his own creations : the first strike of the American Federation of Musicians ; Counterreform and resignation : the second strike of the American Federation of Musicians -- Production, reproduction, and the case of My fair lady. Which voice best becomes the property? stitching the intertext of My fair lady ; Listening to my My fair lady : versioning and the recorded music object -- Stereo, hi-fi, and the modern pleasures of easy listening. A tale of two ears : the concert hall aesthetic and stereo ; Space, the pliable frontier : stereo as the new spatial palette of audio -- Conclusion : the flip side (and a few concluding thoughts).
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Sound recording industry -- United States -- History.
Sound recordings -- Production and direction -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0816645175 (hc : alk. paper)
0816645183 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816645176
9780816645183

 
    
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