1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465778203321

Autore

Kenney William Howland

Titolo

Recorded music in American life [[electronic resource] ] : the phonograph and popular memory, 1890-1945 / / William Howland Kenney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-988014-X

0-19-534678-5

1-282-36697-1

0-19-802604-8

9786612366970

0-19-517177-2

1-60256-489-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/84

Soggetti

Popular music - Social aspects - United States

Phonograph - Social aspects - United States

Sound recording industry - United States - History

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Recorded Music and Collective Memory; 1 Two ""Circles of Resonance"": Audience Uses of Recorded Music; 2 ""The Coney Island Crowd"": The Phonograph and Popular Recordings before World War I; 3 ""His Master's Voice"": The Victor Talking Machine Company and the Social Reconstruction of the Phonograph; 4 The Phonograph and the Evolution of ""Foreign"" and ""Ethnic"" Records; 5 The Gendered Phonograph: Women and Recorded Sound, 1890-1930; 6 African American Blues and the Phonograph: From Race Records to Rhythm and Blues

7 Economics and the Invention of Hillbilly Records in the South8 A Renewed Flow of Memories: The Depression and the Struggle over ""Hit



Records""; 9 Popular Recorded Music within the Context of National Life; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehowtransformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise when we stop taking for granted the phenomenon of recorded music and the phonograph itself.Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453801603321

Autore

Morrall Peter

Titolo

The Trouble with Therapy [[electronic resource] ] : Sociology and Psychotherapy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maidenhead, : McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

ISBN

1-281-95318-0

0-335-23688-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

158.3

361.06

Soggetti

Counseling

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Page; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Enlightenment; Chapter 2: Dysfunctional; Chapter 3: Arrogant; Chapter 4: Selfish; Chapter 5: Abusive; Chapter 6: Infectious; Chapter 7: Insane; Chapter 8: Deceitful; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Sociology is a troublesome discipline. This title describes therapy as a



lottery and replete with conflict and rivalries.