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How Early America Sounded
Author | : Richard Cullen Rath |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Hearing |
ISBN | : 0801472725 |
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In early America, every sound had a living, wilful force at its source - sometimes these forces were not human or even visible. The author recreates in detail a world remote from our own, one in which sounds were charged with meaning and power.
Music Sound and Technology in America
Author | : Timothy D. Taylor,Mark Katz,Tony Grajeda |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2012-06-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822349464 |
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This reader collects primary documents on the phonograph, cinema, and radio before WWII to show how Americans slowly came to grips with the idea of recorded and mediated sound. Through readings from advertisements, newspaper and magazine articles, popular fiction, correspondence, and sheet music, one gains an understanding of how early-20th-century Americans changed from music makers into consumers.
Sounds of Change
Author | : Christopher H. Sterling,Michael C. Keith |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807877557 |
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When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of Change, Christopher Sterling and Michael Keith detail the history of FM, from its inception to its dominance (for now, at least) of the airwaves. Initially, FM's identity as a separate service was stifled, since most FM outlets were AM-owned and simply simulcast AM programming and advertising. A wartime hiatus followed by the rise of television precipitated the failure of hundreds of FM stations. As Sterling and Keith explain, the 1960s brought FCC regulations allowing stereo transmission and requiring FM programs to differ from those broadcast on co-owned AM stations. Forced nonduplication led some FM stations to branch out into experimental programming, which attracted the counterculture movement, minority groups, and noncommercial public and college radio. By 1979, mainstream commercial FM was finally reaching larger audiences than AM. The story of FM since 1980, the authors say, is the story of radio, especially in its many musical formats. But trouble looms. Sterling and Keith conclude by looking ahead to the age of digital radio--which includes satellite and internet stations as well as terrestrial stations--suggesting that FM's decline will be partly a result of self-inflicted wounds--bland programming, excessive advertising, and little variety.
The Queer Composition of America s Sound
Author | : Nadine Hubbs |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2004-10-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780520937956 |
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In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification—especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality—in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.
America on Record
Author | : Andre Millard |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2005-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521835151 |
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This study provides a history of sound recording from the acoustic phonograph to digital sound technology. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
I Don t Sound Like Nobody
Author | : Albin Zak |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780472035120 |
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A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history
America on Record
Author | : A. J. Millard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : OCLC:1145782813 |
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The American Scholar
Author | : William Allison Shimer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : UVA:X006173917 |
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