Recorded music in American life : the phonograph and popular memory, 1890-1945 / / William Howland Kenney
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| Autore: |
Kenney William Howland
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| Titolo: |
Recorded music in American life : the phonograph and popular memory, 1890-1945 / / William Howland Kenney
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/84 |
| Soggetto topico: | Popular music - Social aspects - United States |
| Phonograph - Social aspects - United States | |
| Sound recording industry - United States - History | |
| Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Recorded music in American life |
| 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 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814440103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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