03179nam 22006374a 450 991082107020332120200520144314.00-8166-9695-0(CKB)1000000000346701(EBL)310741(OCoLC)476096018(SSID)ssj0000195806(PQKBManifestationID)11937295(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195806(PQKBWorkID)10131696(PQKB)10884709(MiAaPQ)EBC310741(OCoLC)85864273(MdBmJHUP)muse39367(Au-PeEL)EBL310741(CaPaEBR)ebr10159614(CaONFJC)MIL526046(EXLCZ)99100000000034670120051207d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaking easy listening material culture and postwar American recording /Tim J. Anderson1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20061 online resource (282 p.)Commerce and mass culture seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-4518-3 0-8166-4517-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.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).In Making Easy Listening, Tim J. Anderson analyzes the period between the Second World War and the mid-1960s that saw the American music industry engaged in a fundamental transformation in how music was produced and experienced. Anderson presents a social and cultural history of musical production that aims to understand how recording technologies influence musicians', as well as listeners', lives.Commerce and mass culture series.Sound recording industryUnited StatesHistorySound recordingsProduction and directionUnited StatesPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centurySound recording industryHistory.Sound recordingsProduction and directionPopular cultureHistory781.490973Anderson Tim J1649361MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821070203321Making easy listening3998062UNINA