Making easy listening [[electronic resource] ] : material culture and postwar American recording / / Tim J. Anderson
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| Autore: |
Anderson Tim J
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| Titolo: |
Making easy listening [[electronic resource] ] : material culture and postwar American recording / / Tim J. Anderson
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 781.490973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sound recording industry - United States - History |
| Sound recordings - Production and direction - United States | |
| Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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). |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Making easy listening |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9695-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784108803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Commerce and mass culture series.